I'm not about love, but in this moment, I wish that I were.

The treachery of demons is nothing compared to the betrayal of an angel.

All my life, I've understood the nature of where I come from, but I never thought it might be wicked until now.

That was the thing about being bereaved. People were overcome with sympathy. They did things for you without even considering whether or not it was the right thing to do.

People make decisions, and maybe you don't always agree, but those choices are still their own.

Once, my mother told a whole host of angels that she’d rather die than go back to a man she didn’t love.

Tender, " she said again. "Tender is kind and gentle. It's also sore, like the skin around an injury.

You asked about love. I don't know about love, Daphne. I just know I don't want anything but you. I don't want to anywhere but with you.

He smiles an honest smile for the first time, and the difference is hard to describe but easy to recognize.

I just want that, the way I feel when you kiss me. Just having it makes all the bad things better.

My father's answer was revenge-has always been revenge-and the outcome was just, but not better. Nothing is fixed.

That must be love: when everything else in the world could implode and you wouldn't care as long as you had that one person standing beside you.

To fly/steal is woman’s gesture, to steal into language to make it fly.

Nothing external to you has any power over you.

It is only reasonable that our laws do not force our country to provide safe harbor to those individuals that are being sought out by their governments due to their terrorist ties.

I want to be the first guy to reverse a communist revolution.

It's one thing to be a perfectionist when you're alone, but when you're trying to make it work in an ensemble that's a whole different deal.

It looks to me, looking out the hatch, that we are venting something. We are venting something out into the - into space.

A great leader's courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.

I remember once when I told Lindsay Anderson at a party that acting was just a sophisticated way of playing cowboys and Indians he almost had a fit.

Whenever young writers ask me for advice, I always say you have to be able to take a lot of rejection because, unless you're very lucky, that's what's going to happen.