Then you must say to her, 'Madame, I observe that your heart is broken. Allow me to repair it for you.

It was good to walk into a library again; it smelled like home.

The heart does not go backward. Only the mind.

When you handle books all day long, every new one is a friend and a temptation.

It was not the brutality of what occurred next that changed my mind and brought home to me the full meaning of fear. It was the brilliance of it.

The problem is simply finding the right person. Ask Plato. Just make sure she finishes your thoughts and you finish hers. That's all you need.

As you know, human history is full of evil deeds, and maybe we ought to think of them with tears, not fascination.

...History it seemed could be something entirely different a splash of blood whose agony didn't fade overnight or over centuries.

It's funny; in this era of e-mail and voice mail and all those things that even I did not grow up with, a plain old paper letter takes on amazing intimacy.

There is nothing harder, at moments, than talking to someone who has all the power of silence.

...what will we someday do, I always wonder, without the pleasures of turning through books and stumbling on things we never meant to find?

To be sentenced to jail because of your faith in God is to let you know the degree of darkness in that particular society

When I go to movies I generally want to be taken to another world.

But I think happiness springs from another source, a far deeper one that doesn't depend on will because it comes from love.

I'm writing a movie about Mozart going to New York in the '60s. I've been reading so many novels.

Speaking to a lawyer about pictures is something like talking to a butcher about humanity.

Obama's coalition would have consigned him to the political margins as little as 12 years ago, but the nation's demographic changes are moving far more quickly than most Republicans anticipated.

The prophet is appointed to oppose the kind, and even more: history.

My karate skills are very limited. I'm a green belt.

Beauty is only skin deep, and the world is full of thin skinned people.

What do you have to do? Pack your bags, Go to the station without them, Catch the train, And leave your self behind.