To lie about a far country is easy

You have the army of mediocrities followed by the multitude of fools. As the mediocrities and the fools always form the immense majority, it is impossible for them to elect an intelligent government.

Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.

Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.

The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.

A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption.

Of all the passions, the only one that seems respectable to me is the passion for food

It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.

There is only one good thing in life, and that is love. And how you misunderstand it! how you spoil it! You treat it as something solemn like a sacrament, or something to be bought, like a dress.

Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.

Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.

The world was not just moving. It was alive. And it was ready to fight.

I don't write like this in order to show how clever and well read I am--though I am rather clever and well read as a matter of fact.

What do I bring to the Democratic National Convention that other reporters don't? Hair.

I'm terrified of learning lines, and I've always been terrified that I won't learn them.

We ended the war in Vietnam, and brought the troops home.

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

Yes, my kids come first, but as a parent I need to come to them with a fresh mind. I can't be too exhausted or too tired. And I am a better parent when I have more energy.

I love to spend money.

Audiences arent fools - their judgement really is important. And the true heroes of films are the investors. They take the risk, after all.

It's always fun to improvise. What's weird is that when you're recording, you're by yourself, for the most part.