Too many moralists begin with a dislike of reality.

Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.

Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts.

As time goes on, new and remoter aspects of truth are discovered which can seldom be fitted into creeds that are changeless.

Dogs have more love than integrity. They've been true to us, yes, but they haven't been true to themselves.

Joy sat in my throat like an egg resting on a spoon, quiet and fragile, but real.

Writing is easy, its marketing that is truly hell!

In 30 minutes, at high noon, more than 200 civilians are killed. Zionism carries out a massacre in the city of Lydda.

I'll change to a dragon, then you'll be sorry.

The way I see it is that all the ol' guff about being Irish is a kind of nonsense. I mean, I couldn't be anything else no matter what I tried to be. I couldn't be Chinese or Japanese.

I come from the theater and I plan to always do theater. So I don't really see myself not being able to act even if people don't think I am sexy enough for film at 40, I'll still be acting.

To be at peace with self, to find company and nourishment in self-this would be the test of the free and productive psyche.

There is nothing we value and hunt and cultivate and strive to draw to us, but in some hour we turn and rend it.

Since we cannot promise our selves constant health, let us endeavour at such temper as may be our best support in the decay of it.

For me, moving from photography to film was very easy.