You're alive!" Fezzik cried. The man in black sat immobile, like a ventriloquist's dummy, just his mouth moving. "That is perhaps the most childishly obvious remark I have ever come across.

Life is pain, highness. Anyone who tells you differently is selling something.

Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line.

Nobody knows anything.

Her heart was a secret garden and the walls were very high.

Westley and I are joined by the bond of love and you cannot track that, not with a thousand bloodhounds, and you cannot break it, not with a thousand swords.

Never get involved in a land war in Asia.

Do I love you? My God, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches.

Nobody knows anything...... Not one person in the entire motion picture field knows for a certainty what's going to work. Every time out it's a guess and, if you're lucky, an educated one.

A good writer is not someone who knows how to write- but how to rewrite

Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.

It is not the monsters we should be afraid of

My friends are always honest with me about films. But I really wanted to talk to regular people and kind of have a forum to interact with them; not just about films, but about everything.

There goes a woman who knows all the things that can be taught and none of the things that cannot be taught.

The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.

I find people who want to help other people to be the most interesting. I come from a family of teachers, and my friends are teachers, often times in very difficult school situations.

For Obama to save himself, he should be thinking about the example of an unlikely Republican predecessor: Richard Nixon.

All things are literally better, lovelier, and more beloved for the imperfections which have been divinely appointed, that the law of human life may be effort, and the law of human judgment, mercy.

I used to do drugs in high school. I've been living in L.A. for almost 10 years, and shortly after I arrived I cleaned up pretty much. Stuff goes on on the set, stuff goes on at parties.

I think I write in order to discover on my shelf a new book that I would enjoy reading, or to see a new play that would engross me.

When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king even in the knocker on a door.