Torture takes over someone's nervous system. Torture takes over what they feel. Torture takes over and penetrates into their mind and into their body. It's not only illegal, it's immoral.

I think if you're looking for a pure expression of evil, torture is pretty - is a pretty good candidate.

One is the goals of 9/11 itself, of that attack was to draw the United States into Afghanistan to fight a counterinsurgency as the Soviets had done before them.

I would not like to be in President Obama's position in making choices on Afghanistan.

Protect art. It is the antidote to the innate barbarism of the human race.

When I'm not acting, I'm at the beach. I like to spend a lot of time in the water, surfing.

How strange a thing is death, bringing to his knees, bringing to his antlers The buck in the snow . . . Life, looking out attentive from the eyes of the doe.

I'm inspired by anything. Not even just art, just anything that's real and vulnerable.

Love is like mayonaisse: when it separates, you've got to throw it away and start again.

If Alibaba cannot become a Microsoft or Walmart, I will regret it for the rest of my life.

You are the one who gives me reason to wake in the mornings, who infuriates me, who enrages me, who enthralls me. You are my passion, my fury, my soul. Shall i explain further?

You can't just put the military in the streets of the United States rounding up illegal aliens. I think that would be a violation of federal law.

On the surface, an intelligible lie; underneath, the unintelligible truth.

Let me see what I have that will 'abide the fire.'