We think of those nights spent with one or more friends, nights when we merged with the shadows and could see the world with eyes that were not our own.

Alas! Charles made the promise glibly, and forgot all about it.

The climber, like a fox which is hard-pressed, should always have one more trick in his bag.

That time when past begins to look longer than the future

It is the conquest of this fear that adds half the charm to climbing.

You remarked once in a fit of pique you had made me famous. You were wrong, my dear. You have made me.

Let me propose that if your beliefs or convictions matter more to you than people—if they require you to act as though you were a worse person than you are—you may have lost perspective.

You think you're alone until you realize you're in it.Now fear is here to stay, love is here for a visit.

On lower budget things you're still working collaboratively, but the investment and your level of creative importance is higher on something like this.

Respect me, or put me to death.

We are all of us richer than we think we are; but we are taught to borrow and to beg, and brought up more to make use of what is another's than of our own.

I haven't had ice-cream in a year, although I did have a slice of pizza. People don't realise that when you're shooting a movie it's only three months to get in shape for.

President Obama came up with tremendous ideas, but he was blocked by the Republicans.

Slander is the balm of malignity.

When black women are down with you and in your corner, you have an ally that will move Heaven and Earth.