Christopher Quotes

Morning is the best time to see movies.

I don't want to talk about intelligence matters. I will say, however, that intelligence-community estimates should not become public in the way of this city and in the way of Congress.

The United States has done more for the war crimes tribunal than any other country in the world. We're turning over all the information we have, including intelligence information.

My children, to the extent that they have found religion, have found it from me, in that I insist on at least a modicum of religious education for them.

The amazing fact is that America is founded on a document. It's a work in progress. It can be tested by each generation.

I don't particularly enjoy watching films in 3D because I think that a well-shot and well-projected film has a very three-dimensional quality to it, so I'm somewhat sceptical of the technology.

I'm afraid the SS's relationship with the Catholic Church is something the Church still has to deal with and does not deny.

The law has no compassion. And justice is administered without compassion.

If you are in here tonight and you have never contemplated suicide…you've never truly been in love. If you're in here tonight and you have never contemplated murder…you've never been divorced.

Living in fear is not living at all.

Killing time. Its a very crass and breezy expression when you ponder it for a moment, considering that time, after all, is killing us.

We all have powers within us that we don't know exist until we're tested. There are no limitations to what you can do if you have the determination.

It's pretty irrefutable that you can help yourself. I just don't believe in ultimatums.

How much is a chocolate boyfriend - can I have one?

Russia does not control oil prices - OPEC does. So Russia is a hostage in the hands of those who control these prices

Russia's main weaknesses are inflexibility and dependence on energy resources

There isn't much political coloration in my economic writing; it's not surprising that few people know my political views. They really aren't very important.

I don't think you're human unless you go through some [self-destructi on].

I went to college in Connecticut, which was when I still lived at home. I worked at a video store, a wine store, and did odd jobs here and there like landscaping.

Your duty as an actor is to try to make it as real as possible.

There are geologists who can pick up a rock and say, 'Yes, there's oil under there.' A geologist who has been studying those kinds of rocks for 10 or 20 years is able to make that pronouncement.

What's Princeton doing today?

Make your blade a water-seeking missle

Weber's writing is as strong as any in the Contemporary Folk community. ' Goodbye to Dad' is one of the best original tunes that I have heard in a long time.

Well, sometimes when you say you want to be like everybody else, you're really saying that you're not.

Larry Hagman was a huge star, and he was carrying my stuff for me.

As much as I didn't want to change, lifestyles do change.

I think the United States is way behind the times.

All of a sudden your whole life becomes a public issue. Money, wealth, people, prestige - all of that suddenly comes into play.

One of my favorite stories is my first kissing scene with Linda Gray.

Emily Dickinson liked to shock people. She liked to break rules. There was a kind of rebellious freedom in her inner world.

I've never had a mentor. I've always wanted one. I'm actually really disappointed that nobody took my under their wing.

Looking back, [R.E.M.]videos, by in large, have always been art films. I'm thinking of "Losing My Religion." That's a landmark piece.

There is a value to moving more slowly through a story.

There's also something sexual about watching the nubile girl in terror. But you do take on her fear as your own.

Both my parents were big readers. My dad liked more macho adventure books like Shogun or spy novels. My mother reads murder mysteries. In fact, so does her mother, my grandma.

There is something very romantic about the orphan figure in American literature.

I don't think secrets are a bad thing. I think there's this idea that everything needs to be transparent in order for it to be free.

Secrets are never secure because they are always at risk of being found out.

There are certain moments where artwork might seem like it's part of someone's career - if you really know the art world - , but I did my best to prevent that overlap.

Safety, reputation, their lives, their friends, and their world. Writers typically try to avoid that because it's not expedient.

People aren't doing whodunits anymore.

There seem to be two ways of generating interest from the reader: withholding information or by telling the reader on the first page exactly what's going to happen.

It's hard for me to figure out where I want to be. But it's definitely in New York. I feel like New York throws different challenges at you and you can be more creative.

Talking to all those great writers and artists for the magazine was a form of graduate school for me.

In a lot of ways, work was my graduate school.

Why I love chess and tennis - the volleying aspect, and the fact that your competitors' reactions and motivations and bluffs come into the game itself.

You find when you're writing a detective story that you're actually not trying to solve anything. You're trying to stop the reader from solving the puzzle.

One day I want to write a full-on horror book.

Going out into the country after living in the city is a loss of control.