Well, luck is for fools. It's all they have to hope for, poor devils.

Quiet people have the loudest minds.

Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.

The water was glassy and calm, still candy-colored in the afterglow of sunset.

A life without love is like a tree without fruit.

The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

Outside, daylight was bleeding slowly toward dusk.

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

People who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad.

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there... and still on your feet.

If you believe only in facts and forget stories, your beain will live, but your heart will die

Dying is a very solitary thing. The only thing we can do it be there when she wants us there.

Can-do" is the parent of "Have-done". No passion, no production!

EVERY person and experience HAS contributed to who you have become today. NOTHING was wasted

People say, 'Gee, you do a lot of mafia movies.' I think I've done two, out of 60.

Real patriotism is realizing America sucks, but everywhere else is a thousand times worse.

Anatoli Tarasov, the guy that created the Soviet style of play, was a visionary. He was a creative thinker. He studied ballet and chess and art and read a lot.

Theoretical physicists live in a classical world, looking out into a quantum-mechanical world. The latter we describe only subjectively, in terms of procedures and results in our classical domain.

No novel has ever changed anything, as far as I can see.

We've used derivatives for many, many years. I don't think derivatives are evil, per se, I think they are dangerous.