Torture injures everyone who comes into contact with it and corrodes the country that abides it.

Bad guys do what good guys dream.

It's not enough to do good. You have to be seen doing good.

Beauty, brains, and a complete psycho. My dream girl.

I write about power, that's my real subject - how you get it, what you do with it, how you abuse it. I'm equally wary of liberals and conservatives.

Justice is a jagged road.

The more I know, the less I sleep.

Nobody's reasonable when they're in love. That's the whole point of it.

In L.A., the only thing within walking distance is your car.

I'm sympathetic to the decent and hapless footsoldier into whose lap falls the unenviable duty of carrying out fubar policies.

If you're going to play stickball in Canarsie you better learn Brooklyn rules.

It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare, you're so relieved. I woke up into a nightmare.""And what is that nightmare, Craig?""Life.

The house fills with the particular atmosphere that accompanies peacefully sleeping children: a rich narcotic silence that creeps down the stairs and twines itself around the table legs.

The child is father of the man.

A woman's best protection is a little money of her own.

Calm down, Think different, Find your way.

I'm trying to capture a moment. It's not about the singer at the microphone. I'm trying to look for, like, a moment in between.

The creative person pays close attention to what appears discordant and contradictory... and is challenged by such irregularities.

We fly; we dream in darkness; we devour heaven in bites too small to be measured.

It's perfectly obvious that somebody's responsible and somebody's innocent. Otherwise it [justice] makes no sense at all.

No Marxist can deny that the interests of socialism are higher than the interests of the right of nations to self-determination.