When we really want to go for something better, we shall smash the old. Until then, any sort of proposal, or making proposals, is no more than a tiresome game for self-important people.

Don't you find it a beautiful clean thought, a world empty of people, just uninterrupted grass, and a hare sitting up?

Every man who is acutely alive is acutely wrestling his own soul.

That’s the place to get to—nowhere. One wants to wander away from the world’s somewheres, into our own nowhere.

They stood together in a false intimacy, a nervous contact. And he was in love with her.

When you have that respect from your teammates, it makes it a lot more comfortable.

I write from a people's point of view. I love people because I understand them. I understand an enemy, I understand a friend, I understand grey areas, and I understand black areas.

One month, two months, I am ready to accept any accord on this point that has the approval of the inspectors.

I had pictured myself as a filmmaker but I had never pictured myself as a director if that makes any sense at all.

They come for you in the morning in a limousine; they take you to the studio; they stick a pretty girl in your arms... They call that a profession? Come on!

The only thing I use the Rolling Stone for is toilet paper when I run out.

At least at first, the new thing is rarely as good as the old thing was. If you need the alternative to be better than the status quo from the very start, you'll never begin.

Allow the purity of evil to guide you.

And finally, let me just say it is a fact that not every city can dedicate resources to terrorism.

I'm eternally grateful to fate and the citizens of Russia that they've trusted me to be the head of the Russian government.