You discarded most of the lies along the way but held on to the one that said life mattered.

Quiet people have the loudest minds.

Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.

The water was glassy and calm, still candy-colored in the afterglow of sunset.

A life without love is like a tree without fruit.

The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

Outside, daylight was bleeding slowly toward dusk.

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

People who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad.

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there... and still on your feet.

In this decisive hour of our national history, union means life and division means death.

However, that old mode of Polish filmmaking virtually disappeared.

That's what I loved about show business, no two days were alike. It's an exciting life.

Drama or comedy programming is still the surest way for advertisers to reach a mass audience. Once that changes, all bets are off.

Man can only know the nagation, never the position of ultimate reality.

The more wants we have, the further we are from God, and the nearer we approach him, the better can we dispense with everything that is not Himself.

Common decency demands that [NCAA athletes] should be paid, but the only way it will happen is the same way workers got paid throughout American history, through a strong union.

I've already had to wait so long." "How long?" Luce asked. "Not so long that I've forgotten that you're worth everything. Every sacrifice. Every pain.

I think that one thing that people are missing is that we are never going to be able to fix this country's [American] economy in the long run until we fix our public education system.

Broadway - the great sluice that washes out the dust of the gold-mines of Gotham.