It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

There is no French town in which the wounds inflicted on the battle-field are not bleeding.

I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world.

Let us lose none of their humble words, let us note their slightest gestures, and tell me, tell me that we will think of them together, now and later, when we realise the misery of the times and the magnitude of their sacrifice.

We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory.

Suffering has roused them from the sleep of gentle life, and every day fills them with a terrible intoxication. They are now something more than themselves; those we loved were merely happy shadows.

Do not trust your memory; it is a net full of holes; the most beautiful prizes slip through it.

In the beds which the piety of the public has prepared on every side, stricken men await the verdict of fate.

We can know nothing till after this grave debate. The soul must withdraw, for this is not its hour. Now the knife must divide the flesh, and lay the ravage bare, and do its work completely.

The swimmer adrift on the open seas measures his strength, and strives with all his muscles to keep himself afloat. But what is he to do when there is no land on the horizon, and none beyond it?

It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

The desire for order is the only order in the world.

We were all born equal, but where we are in life now is of our own making.

I love my rabbit, my family rabbit.

I was born deaf, and I gained my hearing back when I was six months old - it was a miraculous event.

In some neighborhoods, if you want to walk down the streets, you've got two choices - look down, or look hard.

The paintings that really excite me have an erotic element or side to them irrespective of subject matter.

I just did a film in which I had to be a dancer and I was able to do all kinds of extraordinary things. A lot of people turn 50 and talk about what they're not going to do anymore. I embarked on something that I'd wanted to do when I was 5.

This is my Bible. I am what it says I am. I have what it says I have. I can do what it says I can do.

Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an excuse for persecution, and our profoundest scientific insight is made into a means of mass destruction.

There are not fifty ways of fighting, there's only one, and that's to win. Neither revolution nor war consists in doing what one pleases.

Playful stimulation probably hits all kinds of synaptic possibilities. It is all make-believe and all over the map. The potentiality of the synapses and the potentiality of playfulness are a beautiful marriage.

I thought I was going to make bigger films for mass audiences. And I wanted that. I actually had in mind a James-Bondian thriller.

It takes one person to give you a big chance.

We all have a responsibility to volunteer somewhere and I'm lucky that I get the education and get taken to places to see what's out there and see what's happening and to then be a part of it in hopefully an impactful way.

Horror movies can be very interesting because they can deal with intangible subjects that are full of emotion.

Now is everything. Now is the essence. Now is the focus. Focus on the now. For that is the key.

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.

The last name is pronounced Jill-en-hall. It's spelled with two l's, two a's. We have a song in my family; G-Y-Double L - EN - HAAL spells Gyllenhaal. It's a Swedish name. It's a family heirloom set to music.

In all codependent relationships the rescuer needs the victim as much as the victim needs the rescuer.

Being happy doesnt mean youre perfect. It just means youve decided to look beyond the imperfections.

The only people who like to live alone more than comics are priests.

I'm in the gym every morning and have lockers by Democrats. You know, I don't ask person X or person Y to go out to dinner. Not because they're bad people - I just have very little in common with them.

A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain.

I was a little shocked at how adult some of the humor was, because I was never that into animation before and when I watched 'Shrek' I really laughed out loud.

My drawing for women is really curvy. My drawings for men are actually quite angular.