our love for the dead, like a floating iceberg, can only be measured by the depths of our resentments.

Every country that aspires to become a nation needs its heroes, its eminent civic and moral leaders, and if it doesn't have them, it's our duty to invent them.

Death is a woman, and for that reason she's courageous and just, and never makes distinctions between mortals; she'll crush the ignorant, the arrogant, and the wise alike under her icy foot.

A story is like building a chapel; a novel is a cathedral.

Sometimes it's necessary to believe in love, even if it doesn't exist.

Our needs cancel each other out, and that's as solid a base for love as any.

Life can only be understood backwards

Peace is not happenstance. It is a living fire that must be fed constantly. It must be tended to with vigilance, else it dies out.

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

When a cycle in your life repeats, you should troubleshot where the glitch is. Find the glitch and you will find your purposed journey.

It seems like everything sleeps in winter, but it's really a time of renewal and reflection.

Twenty years after we had left so fierce and proud, we were all right back where we had started, yoked to each other and the same old drama.

David Letterman was my guy growing up. My parents recorded the tenth anniversary special for me, and I watched it 40 times.

If I lose a billion dollars, I will have it back in less than five years.

I've always had a lot of creative impact on the music with Timbaland.

The public always loves anything that's different, as long as it's well-made, if it's well-done. You never know what to expect when you go to one of these so-called superhero movies.