War is always a contest of words as well as of wounds.

It is neither cowardice nor betrayal to insist that the Enlightenment's main lesson is to be mindful of how much it has left its inheritors to figure out.

She felt the intimate loss of who she was meant to become.

I wish upon a glimmering star, My hopes as distant and as far. So if this wish does not come true, I’m thankful for the few that do.

I've done a movie and a TV series, and someday I'd like to do a successful movie and a successful TV series. That would be nice.

Superior people take both the credit and the blame for everything that happens to them.

Most things don't work out as expected, but what happens instead often turns out to be the good stuff.

Growing older is not upsetting; being perceived as old is.

If you are not prepared, you cannot work out intensely. If you do not perform, you cannot get results, and if you can't do your best to recover, you won't get the benefits of your hard work.

I'm a maniacal perfectionist.

I'm instinctively a Conservative.

Art respects the masses, by standing up to them for what they could be, rather than conforming to them in their degraded state.