Tai tapped his left nostril. 'You know what this is, Nakkoo? It's the place where the outside world meets the world inside you.

‎No people whose word for 'yesterday' is the same as their word for 'tomorrow' can be said to have a firm grip on the time.

It has been observed that all Americans need a frontier: pain was hers, and she was determined to push it out.

Parents are impelled by the profit motive - nothing more, nothing less. For their attentions, they expected, from me, the immense dividend of greatness.

The world is full of love stories, and all lovers are in a sense the avatars of their predecessors.

She has vivid pictures of Hell. It is as hot as Rajputana in June and everyone is made to learn seven foreign languages . . .

I should never have dreamed of purpose, I am coming to the conclusion that privacy, the small individual lives of men, are preferable to all this inflated macrocosmic activity.

Early violence and early abandonment damages people and family systems, and can persist for decades if not healed.

The forecast iswe kiss goodbye and never helloall kisses are then parting kisses

It's closer to just acting in a film because it was a six-month commitment. We got to fly all over the world.

When I saw the first video iPod, I thought this could have the same impact VHS/home video had on the movie business.

Want what you have and you will always get what you want.

I really choose by what I like, i thought 'Alexander' was a super smart script. Just [costar] Steve [Carell] alone would have been enough. Gosh, I love working with that guy. He's just the best.

There is not an enemy so stout, as to storm and take the fortress of the mind, Unless its infirmity turn traitor, and Fear unbar the gates.

To make movies you just have to want it enough. You have to have the passion for telling stories. You have to get by the love-of-movies aspect. You can't just be a movie fan.

To make someone wait: the constant prerogative of all power.

To me, the mind seems to be spread out in the whole body - the senses are part of the brain. I guess they're not where the thinking is done.