To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something.

Bourbon does for me what the piece of cake did for Proust.

You live in a deranged age, more deranged than usual because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Where there is chance of gain, there is also chance of loss. Whenever one courts great happiness, one also risks malaise.

In this world goodness is destined to be defeated. But a man must go down fighting. That is the victory. To do anything less is to be less than a man.

We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their face away.

I like to eat crawfish and drink beer. That's despair?

In a word, the consumer of mass culture is lonely, not only lonely, but spiritually impoverished.

Fiction doesn’t tell us something we don’t know, it tells us something we know but don’t know that we know.

Lucky is the man who does not secretly believe that every possibility is open to him.

Have you noticed that only in time of illness or disaster or death are people real?

The quest for enlightenment illustrates the paradox of desire—the fact that you must have desire to be motivated to transcend being ruled by desire.

The situation was different in the jungle. Every inch of ground had to be earned, and was done so through much exertion with the blade.

Fresh blood at midnight isn't red. It's a purplish black that easily blends into the shadows.

The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.

Now let's get talking: reefer madness. Like some arrogant government can't, By any stretch of the imagination, outlaw a plant.

All the fun is locking horns with impossibilities.

The truth of the scholar, alone in his study, does not always accord with what the world at large considers to be true.

I love Tom Wilkinson and Tommy Lee Jones as well as Jessica Chastain. But the person I look up to most, not because I identify with her roles but because of who she is as a person, is Sissy Spacek.

My wife was a Bond girl, in Diamonds Are Forever, so I play James Bond in real life every day.

The students were staring at her in the manner of those who have heard of the species 'female' but have never expected to get this close to one.