In those days food was never just sustenance

The most capricious modern entitlement is not just Social Security but to self-esteem.

When you grow up in a place, you always think it's mundane. Then you travel around and live in different places, and you realise that you've got it the wrong way 'round.

A scientist is only a human being, a particle in the whole universe. How can the observations and logic of a particle measure the life and size of a phenomenon that is limitless?

It is always the nights you cannot remember that eventually become the stories you don’t forget.

God's mill grinds slow, but sure.

Passion, like discriminating taste, grows on its use. You more likely act yourself into feeling than feel yourself into action.

I tell you, Heaven is a real, literal, physical place, a city as material, as physical, as literal as Chicago or London or New York or Tokyo.

A multitude of words is tiresome, unlike remaining centered.

My biggest challenge will be to play the totally submissive woman. It takes a toll on you when you play someone who's far removed from your personality.

I will rememeber you. Will you remember me? Don't let your life pass you by and don't forget all your memories.