Were you born stupid, Heinrich, or did you have to study?

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Thinking doesn't pay. Just makes you discontented with what you see around you.

Faith strikes me as intellectual laziness.

If you've got the truth you can demonstrate it. Talking doesn't prove it.

The golden sunshine of Italy congealed into tears. Here's to alcoholic brotherhood ... much more suited to the frail human soul, if any, than any other sort.

His was not a small mind bothered by logic and consistency.

But goodness alone is never enough. A hard, cold wisdom is required for goodness to accomplish good. Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.

Most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to the unnecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallowing in the troubles and sins of five billion strangers.

English is capable of defining sentiments that the human nervous system is quite incapable of experiencing.

Secrecy begets tyranny.

Down they went, into the darkness. Down ancient, worn steps coated in slippery mildew. Down into the deep recesses of the earth, far beneath the corridors of Deep-Spire.

The sweet sorrow is tears of joy.

Think you can live forever, act like today is your last day on earth.

At the bottom of freshly dug holes, I bury my problems alongside the waxen seeds.

More than 150 heads of state attended the UN Summit, giving New Yorkers a chance to get in touch with prejudices they didn't even know they had.

Faith is a function of the heart.

The essence of nostalgia is an awareness that what has been will never be again.

I've always written for actors, and if you want to write for good actors, you have to write parts that are surprising, that are human, and that allow them to go to a wide range of places.

You always have to be keeping track, especially in this scenario [ The Hateful Eight], of where everybody is. They're pieces on a chess board.

I would never kill somebody, unless they pissed me off.