All those religions--they contradict each other on every point but every one of them is filled with ways to help people to be brave enough to laugh even though they know they are dying.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Thinking doesn't pay. Just makes you discontented with what you see around you.

Faith strikes me as intellectual laziness.

If you've got the truth you can demonstrate it. Talking doesn't prove it.

The golden sunshine of Italy congealed into tears. Here's to alcoholic brotherhood ... much more suited to the frail human soul, if any, than any other sort.

His was not a small mind bothered by logic and consistency.

But goodness alone is never enough. A hard, cold wisdom is required for goodness to accomplish good. Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.

Most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to the unnecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallowing in the troubles and sins of five billion strangers.

English is capable of defining sentiments that the human nervous system is quite incapable of experiencing.

Secrecy begets tyranny.

Why’d you call, boy? What did you want from me?""The company of a friend, I think.""Always a cheap treat.

History doesn't choose individual people. History chooses everyone. Every day. The only question is: How long will you ignore the call?

Every spring he vowed to quit teaching school, and every summer he missed his pupils and searched for them on the streets.

I got to work with Jennifer Tilly, she was amazing. Such, such a smart actress.

I don't want to own anything until I find a place where me and things go together. I'm not sure where that is but I know what it is like. It's like Tiffany's.

I read nonfiction almost exclusively - both for research and also for pleasure. When I read fiction, it's almost always in the thriller genre, and it needs to rivet me in the opening few chapters.

The truth about who we really are, beyond all appearances, is knowledge worth seeking.

We have to have powder for our wigs; that is why so many poor people have no bread.

Even when you don't know, you're supposed to know.

Actors need steely determination. It's a tough profession with plenty of knocks along the way. You have to be very determined and never take 'no' for an answer.