Unknowingly, we plow the dust of stars, blown about us by the wind, and drink the universe in a glass of rain.

Quotations offer one kind of break in what the eye can see, the ear can hear.

Universal violence compels the language to be mute . . . . Silence is not only a metaphor of Hemingway's work; it is also the source of its formal excellence, its integrity.

The (post) structuralist temper requires too great a depersonalization of the writing/speaking subject. Writing becomes plagiarism; speaking becomes quoting. Meanwhile, we do write, we do speak.

When one was full of energy and enthusiasm the world was an apple, the future was way beyond the horizon and only the present was pertinent.

And if I asked for the moon on a string?" - Sorsha

If we had failed to pursue the facts as far as they led, we would have denied the public any knowledge of an unprecedented scheme of political surveillance and sabotage.

To commit suicide is easy. To live without a god is more difficult. The drunkenness of triumph is greater than the drunkenness of sacrifice.

Lost in this young world, I'm just trying to navigate See the pie sliced, I'm just trying to grab a plate.

Retirement is wonderful. It's doing nothing without worrying about getting caught at it.

I hope my next movie is with like 80 year olds because I want to feel young again.

I directed two films, not very successfully, and after that, I went back to being an actor and a producer.

You should go to a pear tree for pears, not to an elm.

Purity is the power to contemplate defilement.