God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road.

When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself.

You know you are truly alive when you’re living among lions.

It is difficult to restrain admirers of Shakespeare once they have begun to speak of him.

I start with a tingle, a kind of feeling of the story I will write. Then come the characters, and they take over, they make the story.

A visitor is a friend, he brings news, good or bad, which is bread to the hungry minds in lonely places. A real friend who comes to the house is a heavenly messenger, who brings the panis angelorum.

There are things which cannot be carried through even with the good will of everybody concerned

Of all the idiots I have met in my life, and the Lord knows they have not been few or little, I think that I have been the biggest.

Love the pride of the conquered nations, and leave them to honour their father and their mother.

Do you know a cure for me?""Why yes, " he said, "I know a cure for everything. Salt water.""Salt water?" I asked him."Yes, " he said, "in one way or the other. Sweat, or tears, or the salt sea.

Come now and let us go and risk our lives unnecessarily. For if they have got any value at all it is this that they gave got none. Frei lebt wer sterben kann.

What does repentance mean? It means to change—to change your mind, change the way that you’re living—and to determine that with God’s help you will live for Christ.

Cinema is all about going back from shadow to light and back and forth: cinema is a place of transgression.

He who cannot describe the problem will never find the solution to that problem.

I try to treat whoever I meet as an old friend [with dignity, with honor].

I think the novel form chose me. I was a writer before I became a criminal... my first instinct was to write.

Movies find me, and I kind of just allow them to find me.

So most of my acting experience came in college when I was living away from them. I acted in various independent films, and I got some commercial work and stuff like that.

Isn't it just heart-stopping and mind-numbing when you stop and realize that the Republican Party doesn't want to win?

Raving mad is quite easy. You just chew up the scenery or something. It's quiet mad that's hard.

Only thought which does violence to itself is hard enough to shatter myth.