Why look any further if you've discovered complete satisfaction.

Laughter is the lightning rod of play, the eroticism of conversation.

The more words I have, the more distinct, precise my perceptions become--and such lucidity is a form of joy.

The authentic is almost never found by being pursued; but there is no missing it when you are in its presence.

There is nothing like a gleam of humor to reassure you that a fellow human being is ticking inside a strange face.

It may be that just as tonality recurs in music and realism in painting, so the idea of liberalism recurs in politics-though each time in a different vein.

The vision of an entire world becoming just like us is at least as discomfiting as the thought that most of it won't.

While we allow the inhabitants of imaginary remote corners the authenticity of savages or sufferers, we rarely suppose them to possess the authenticity of complex, sophisticated perceptions.

Perhaps, if we don't always have a conscious conscience, we have a subliminal one, from which the memory of past wrongs is not so easily erased.

The wonder is what you can make a paradise out of.

The worst losses come at night.

Well, I always did want to go out in a Braveheart kind of way. I'll just have to think of something cool to yell before they cut my head off.

Outer gavels can't crush you when your inner judge is love.

Dipping into the pitcher of the past, his father often said, can only sour the cup of the present.

I had four years of auditions, and nothing happened, until Francis Ford Coppola took a shot on me ['Tetro' in 2009]. I hadn't done a film, and suddenly I was the lead.

A woman / who loves a woman / is forever young.

You never know when you'll come upon something and it's going to be fodder for new material.

There is a physical, not moral, impossibility of supplying the wants of the intellect in the state of civilisation at which we have arrived.

'God himself cannot exist without wise men' - Luther said, and was right. But 'God can exist even less without unwise men' - that good old Luther did not say.

In fact, almost every job you get somebody watching you.

All those ridiculous songs about love - I finally understood.