Women only nag when they feel unappreciated.

Love itself is what is left over when being "in love" has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident.

Did you know that childhood is the only time in our lives when insanity is not only permitted to us, but expected?

No man is a man until he has been a soldier.

That is morality, I make myself imagine that it is personal.

Don't give into him at all. Deny yourself. Because then your eyes will not be clouded by a madness that you cannot control, and then you will be able to learn to see him as he is. Do you understand?

Life has too many disappointments to make room for negativity.

Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.

I get to do interesting roles and make a living.

Well technologically and so forth, it's a breakthrough, and yet [Birth of a Nation,] it's very white supremacist to the core in terms of the narrative content.

At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.

Life is adventure, not predicament.

Don't worry about mistakes. Making things out of mistakes, that's creativity.

Man needs a guru. But a man must have faith in the guru's words. He succeeds in spiritual life by looking on his guru as God Himself.

Kenney knows two essential truths about melodrama: First that it is most powerful when combined with irony and understatement; and second that it is a salient feature of modern life.

America cannot be America in the new century until it deals with these new questions of gender, including the trans issues, and the questions around faith and Islam.