Your nature is not the problem. The problem is that you have become alienated from your nature -- from your power source.

Reading is like travel, allowing you to exit your own life for a bit, and to come back with a renewed, even inspired, perspective.

And to see the white flash of Klaus's eyes as he whirled on her. For one stunned instant she stared at him, and then lightning crackled.From an empty sky.

You can measure the happiness of a marriage by the number of scars that each partner carries on their tongues, earned from years of biting back angry words.

The moment you blame life for who you are is that very moment you ignore your talents and inner abilities to change the world.

Ever since the movie premiered at Cannes, I've had a sudden surge of scripts and interest.

Life's extremities can bring God's proximity.

It comes a time in your life that you will no longer live for yourself anymore. You never know how much a person can mean to you until one comes into your life, and changes it for the best.

Really important books to me are the classics. I try very hard to read them well - you know, especially once I got serious about writing.

How great an evil do you see that may have been announced by you against the Republic? - Videtis quantum scelus contra rem publicam vobis nuntiatum sit?

And once you cease to be a real person, you stop being a good actor.

A frowning face can't bring out the beauty that you are.