When there is no other aim but to outstrip constantly the point arrived at, how painful to be thrown back!...Since imagination is hungry for novelty, and ungoverned, it gropes at random

We do not condemn it because it is a crime, but it is a crime because we condemn it.

Man cannot become attached to higher aims and submit to a rule if he sees nothing above him to which he belongs. To free him from all social pressure is to abandon him to himself and demoralize him.

Socialism is not a science, a sociology in miniature: it is a cry of pain.

One does not advance when one walks toward no goal, or - which is the same thing - when his goal is infinity.

Maniacal suicide. —This is due to hallucinations or delirious conceptions. The patient kills himself to escape from an imaginary danger or disgrace, or to obey a mysterious order from on high, etc.

Crime brings together honest men and concentrates them.

It seems very strange that one must turn back, and be transported to the very beginnings of history, in order to arrive at an understanding of humanity as it is at present.

Collaborating on a film script involves two people sitting in a room separated by the silence of two minds working together.

Amazing things can happen when the family of God bands together.

That in the captain's but a choleric word, Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy.

I have one son. Of everything I've done in my life, nothing matches the feeling of having life growing inside you.

Each time you dip into the well of existence it changes you. Rapid mental development is that process. It is a process of escalating your evolution.

I always wanted to know what the music behind some music was, or where it came from, and that gave me a point of reference for understanding the music I was listening to.

I have seen doctors, in good faith, leave patients on steroids for years, thinking they are doing right. A friend of mine was on steroids for so long, she has severe osteoporosis.

You can't always let people do their own thing.

It's the demand in many ways of modern television drama - it's very low key and naturalistic, and, generally speaking, the characters that I've played have not been low key and naturalistic.

I think that communism was a major force for violence for more than 100 years, because it was built into its ideology - that progress comes through class struggle, often violent.