Christ--the quickest way to send a bloke mad is to let him go on re-fighting his war till he gets it right.

Scars are just another kind of memory.

That's how life goes on - protected by the silence that anesthetizes shame.

It is a luxury to do something that serves no practical purpose: the luxury of civilization.

From when she was a baby, Tom has taught the girl to respect, but not fear, the forces of nature- the lightning that might strike the light tower on Janus, the oceans that batter the island.

Your family's never in your past. You carry it around with you everywhere.

To make sense of it - that's the challenge. To bear witness to the death, without being broken by the weight of it.

Oh, but my treasure, it is so much less exhausting. You only have to forgive once. To resent, you have to do it all day, every day.

You have only to forgive once. To resent, you have to doit all day, every day. You have to keep remembering all the bad things" Frank to Hannah Roennfeldt

The only thing we can do is love that little girl as much as she deserves. And never, never hurt her!

What are you suggesting I do Ralph?’‘I’m suggesting you tell the bloody truth whatever it is. The only place lying leads is trouble.’“Sometimes that’s the only place telling the truth get you, too.

I hope that I am a good man … it would be enough.

If you want to find your greatest love, it will be inside the hardest thing you do.That's where it will be

Our Scottish theory ... is that every country has need of Scotchmen, but that Scotland has no need of the citizens of any other country.

These people are a part of me. And they are a part of America, this country that I love.

Flying is such a joy. You just want to hoot.

I'm learning to hate the sound of my own voice.

Researchers tell us that we have about sixty thousand thoughts a day.

In real life, I always look at people and how they walk, or how they carry themselves. I think about the body a lot, in performance.

When you are free from delusion, you can enjoy illusion. Enjoy the dream but enjoy the dream being free.

A painter is always overjoyed when anybody pays any attention to him at all, puts him in any category, calls him anything - as long as they call him something.