Usually the things you dislike in a person are his defenses against fear.

Murder is the apex of megalomania, the ultimate in control.

Suicide is part murder, revenge on those who hurt you, just as murder is part suicide, for a murderer knows he risks losing his life.

When one must sit with the snobs, one belongs with the frightened.

Life for the unhappy is an endless search for 'the good parent,' one who will truly love him instead of making him afraid.

Flippancy may be a lance tilted in the face of fear.

Understanding why is never enough.

often when I thought I joked, I told the truth, afraid to speak it except in jest.

each generation devises better ways to survive. Civilization may, in one sense, be a tribute to the ingeniousness of some children in outwitting parents.

Reason finds it difficult to take root in the arid soil of wrath.

The outer prisons are made by the community to contain those who have dared break its laws. The inner prisons each man makes for himself because of what he feels are his transgressions.

Chris [Evans] sent us a text that The Avengers assemble at such and such bar at 9 on Saturday night. That was a good group effort.

I think I was a Japanese schoolgirl in another life. That's how much I love Hello Kitty.

This is Not Another Revolution. This is a Civil Rights Movement

What did you do with the time and talents i gave you? God's question.

My dad's dying wish was to have his family around him. I can't help thinking he would have been better off with more oxygen.

If I died tomorrow I've accomplished what I set out to do in my life. I enjoy making my movies, I enjoy doing what I do. I have a nice life.

Its all about your determination, I think, as much as anything. There are a lot of people with talent, but its that determination.

This post-college world felt different from everything that had come before it.

Life is but a web spun of ghosts and dreams and illusions.

When duty calls, that is when character counts.