the worship of beauty is to me a religion. Nothing bad was ever truly beautiful; nothing good is ever really ugly.

The liberty to live for self alone becomes in time a weary bondage.

She had once been described, by one who saw below the surface, as a perfectly beautiful woman in an absolutely plain shell.

In the darkness, he is invisible, but I can still feel him beside me. Sometimes you don't have to see something to know it is there.

The alternative to thinking in evolutionary terms is not to think at all.

Spend your time with family and people you love. Don't wait for festivals be with them, each moment you're with them, that's a festival.

A man that lives on pork, fine-flour bread, rich pies and cakes, and condiments, drinks tea and coffee, and uses tobacco, might as well try to fly as to be chaste in thought.

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.

Nothing before you counts,” he said. “And I can’t even imagine an after.

People aren't interested in paying $10 or $12 to go to the movies and to be lectured to politically. I'm not either. So I don't try to make those kinds of films.

By the second tour I had rice cakes and hummus with me, and I was jumping rope in my room.

I want more rules, more scrutiny, and to defend the country.

If you're lucky, and not a lot of actors are these days, you get the chance to create a character