Our memory has no guarantees at all, and yet we bow more often than is objectively justified to the compulsion to believe what it says.

I was making frequent use of cocaine at that time ... I had been the first to recommend the use of cocaine, in 1885, and this recommendation had brought serious reproaches down on me.

The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life.

Only a rebuke that 'has something in it' will sting, will have the power to stir our feelings, not the other sort, as we know.

I had thought about cocaine in a kind of day-dream.

Nothing that is mentally our own can ever be lost.

When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.

Quirky, funny, happy-go-lucky dead inside Dexter. No longer Dexter with the knife, Dexter the Avenger. Not until next time.

I never reflect or convey that which I have not experienced myself.

I've loved science fiction my whole life. But I've never made a science fiction movie.

One of the things that you never realise while you are young is that things do come to an end.

I think there are movies that are so gigantic that you need a second unit

The common notion that free speech prevails in the United States always makes me laugh.

I always loose a little weight on the road, so I constantly have to be on top of my nutrition and hydration.

War destroys, kills, impoverishes. Lord, give us your peace!

Character survives; goodness lives; love is immortal.