Where we're not wrong or where the cost of settling is so much that it is totally disproportionate to the harm or the error that we made, we're not going to settle.

Out, out brief candle, life is but a walking shadow...a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

For two thousand years or more man has been subjected to a systematic effort to transform him into an ascetic animal. He remains a pleasure-seeking animal.

You can certainly shorten things and tighten things, we tightened up Jon's walk to Mance Rayder's tent. That was something that got tightened up a little bit because I had shot the hell out of that.

While we breathe, we will hope.

Quite literally, you would not have put your shirt on him two weeks ago.

Happiness isn't a state, it's a skill. It's the skill of knowing how to take what life throws your way and make the most of it.

There are a lot of lessons that you learn, and you have to learn them quickly if you want to be competitive at this top level.

Metaphor is not, and never has been, a mere literary term. It is an event.

If you want to do evil, science provides the most powerful weapons to do evil; but equally, if you want to do good, science puts into your hands the most powerful tools to do so

I am overcome by a feeling of complete detachment. I am a mere object to these people. I am barely human any more.