What if the drive to survive was a form of faith, a form of prayer?

First time my master’s in English literature ever proved useful.

But Marchent, most journalists can’t be trusted. You do know that, don’t you?

You’re a mystery the way a sacrament is a mystery.

Writers had a way of redeeming everything that ever happens to them.

Is there any one of us who doesn’t want to strike back at all the evil in this world?

The horror was this: the others.

Who could trust language?

In the story of the prince and the frog, there’s always a frog. This story ... it has no frog.

Fulfilling your destiny is like going on an errand assignment. You must run it to make it meaningful. You don't become who you should become when you remain passionlessly without taking actions.

He gave me a small, secretive smile, a smile that said he knew many things but couldn’t share them all at once.

Better be happy than wise.

I'm all in favour of free expression provided it's kept rigidly under control.

A man used to riding in a car cannot understand a pedestrian.

By attempting the impossible one can attain the highest level of the possible.

A prohibitionist is the sort of man one couldn't care to drink with, even if he drank.

I wanted to work on a cable show and with a writer/director because that's a much more fulfilling and freeing experience, as an actor.

Who feels injustice, who shrinks before a slight, who has a sense of wrong so acute, and so glowing a gratitude for kindness, as a generous boy?