In her final years she would still recall the trip that, with the perverse lucidity of nostalgia, became more and more recent in her memory.

But that afternoon he asked himself, with his infinite capacity for illusion, if such pitiless indifference might not be a subterfuge for hiding the torments of love.

Take advantage of it now, while you are young, and suffer all you can, because these things don't last your whole life.

He was still too young to know that the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past.

and the two of them loved each other for a long time in silence without making love again.

Be calm. God awaits you at the door.

he dared to explore her withered neck w/his fingertips…her hips w/their decaying bones, her thighs with their aging veins.

wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.

One could be happy not only without love, but despite it.

One had to live a long time to know a man's true nature.

Dr Urbino did not agree: in his opinion a Liberal president was exactly the same as a Conservative president, but not as well dressed.

They don’t see what they’re doing. The only thing they see are their intentions.

For the youth, the indignation of most things will just surge as each birthday passes.

In the final analysis there is no other solution to man's progress but the day's honest work, the day's honest decision, the day's generous utterances, and the day's good deed.

It probably says something really clinically terrible about my character that I need to get up on a stage and go 'Ra ra ra' in front of people.

With Edward Norton you'd never say, "This is the one we're going with whether you like it or not." It has to be agreed upon.

I started on the fringes of journalism as a cartoonist on The Daily Mail.

I have only one reader - me. I'm the average reader. If I like it, that's all I worry about.

There is a way to be good again.

A youth is capable of bringing things together and changing the direction too. They can come together and bring changes. There is no need of breaking anything, but need is to bring changes.

The job of the writer and the filmmaker is not to impose his vision on the reality, but to be inspired by the reality and create a vision out of that.