He sat staring before him, seeing nothing but a long line of Mortimers, inexhaustable and prolific to the end of time.

A dead eagle he might have buried, but he had chosen rather to light a fire for a phoenix.

The fearful seek to serve themselves by mastering the world, while the fearless seek to serve the world by mastering themselves.

If the apostles reminded even Paul himself to remember the poor (Galatians 2:10), then surely the rest of us need such a reminder.

One of the duties of old-age, is the management of time. The less that remains to us, the more valuable we ought to consider it.

I love the trick of painting. You can have the movement within the still thing, but it is completely fixed. And that illusion is constantly exciting.

I have a lot of trouble with scripts. I have a lot of trouble imagining things while I'm reading them.

And even sadness was also something for rich people, for people who could afford it, for people who didn't have anything better to do. Sadness was a luxury.

The more people we have on our team. the less room there is in the elevator and the more complicated everything gets.

When you're writing, your mind has a place where the stories happen. With one word, you can get the idea of where you are.

To be without pity for other mens falls, is an evident sign that we shall fall ourselves shortly.

A room without books is like a life without meaning.