Why should he be spared?''Someone ought to be.' And it will not be me. I have survived, but I have not been spared.

You are going to break your promise. I understand. And I hold my hands over the ears of my heart, so that I will not hate you.

You will always fall in love, and it will always be like having your throat cut, just that fast.

And as we watched, the Tsar of Death lifted up his eyelids like skirts and began to dance in the streets of Leningrad.

Just tell yourself a story that'll satisfy you and pretend he told it.

Just remember that the only question in a house is who is to rule. The rest is only dancing around that, trying not to look it in the eye.

Men die. It's practically what they're for.

First, the avid student must be aware that when the world was young it knew only seven things: water, life and death, salt, night, birds and the length of an hour.

In both marriage and war you must cut up the things people say like a cake and eat only what you can stomach.

No, not like this, when I have not seen you without your skin on, when I know nothing, when I am not safe. Not you, whose name all my nightmares know.

I know you loved both he and I, the way a mother can love two sons. And no one should be judged for loving more than they ought, only for loving not enough.

To make one, there must be two.

IF you Salute your work,You do not have to salute anybody. IF you pollute your work,You have to salute everybody.

Being anti-war in Hollywood was an act of bravery on the order of the keynote speaker at a PLO dinner making jokes about Ariel Sharon.

Beware the tyranny of the weak. They just suck you dry.

Three things can happen when you throw the ball, and two of them are bad.

Kickback is a police thriller which I wrote. I'm very proud of it. I did it in two parts for France because when I wrote it, there wasn't the audience demand for crime stuff that there is now.

I can flip my tongue over. Only one in 10,000 people can. I learned that at Ripley's Believe It or Not!

Like other presidents before him, Barack Obama inherited a recession. But unlike them, he has made it worse, not better.

To be on a quest is nothing more or less than to become an asker of questions.

A gentleman who had been very unhappy in marriage, married immediately after his wife died; it was the triumph of hope over experience.