When there’s only God to blame, we forgive him. When it’s our fellow man, we destroy him.

Killing a man should be harder than waving a length of pipe in their direction. It should take long enough for one's conscience to get in the way.

Even in the darkness, his smile threw shadows.

It was the hubris of each generation to think this anew, to think that their time was special, that all things would come to an end with them.

Fiction challenges us and works its miracles by placing us in the skin of another human being and teaching us empathy.

Sometimes a thing needed opening before closure was found.

It’s easy to forgo distractions and to not accumulate things when you have a larger goal on the horizon.

I'd rather excite the imagination of a legion of readers and make pennies from each of them than hold off for a larger chunk of change from only a handful of fans.

Heroes didn't win. The heroes were whoever happened to win. History told their story -- the dead didn't say a word. All of it was bullshit.

"What we control," Juliette said, "is our actions once fate puts us there."

My life is too tight, he wanted to say. My skin is too tight. The walls are too tight.

The biggest and grandest adventure in life is life itself.

If you have something to say, make it meaningful, all else is meaningless.

Hip Hop Generation “captures the collective hopes and nightmares, ambitions and failures of those who would otherwise be described as “post-this” or “post-that.”

It was a requirement by the veterans to list the 57, 000 names. We're reaching a time that we'll acknowledge the individual in a war on a national level.

I'm a poet, and I spent my life in poetry.

I never plan to stop acting, I take it very seriously.

Marvelous oriental pace he's got, just like a Buddhist statue.

The hours pass and the days and the months and the years, and the past time never returns.

Comedy has always been something I love, but for some reason - probably because of the British accent - I've always been pushed toward more period work.

Every year there's an Oscar and Grammy and we celebrate those shows. We do the same in the U.S about sports schools and colleges. The same thing doesn't happen for tech and STEM.