Convictions do not imply reasons.

Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation.

A pint can't hold a quart - if it holds a pint it is doing all that can be expected of it.

Conscience that isn't hitched up to common sense is a mighty dangerous thing.

Convictions do not imply reasons.

Conscience that isnt hitched up to common sense is a mighty dangerous thing.

One must desire something to be alive.

The insolence of time is like a blow in the face from an unseen enemy.

Every new truth begins in a shocking heresy.

Monday is an awful way to spend 17 of your life.

Theater has always been most important to my psyche.

The most important thing people did for me was to expose me to new things.

It's better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all

I think people respect governments that take decisions and act decisively.

Habit is a mans sole comfort. We dislike doing without even unpleasant things to which we have become accustomed.

To destroy a people you must first sever their roots.

My mother was a beauty queen in her hey day. That's where I learnt a little about makeup and hair... I had never picked up or even seen a 'Vogue' before I was 17. I had no idea about fashion, magazines, models or designers. No idea.

Some of the greatest moments in life come from moments that are incomplete.

If anything, game development is even more of a team effort than making a movie, so for individuals to get credit for making a game is absolutely insane.

When I was younger I used to get my best writing done at night, but now it has to be during the day. I usually finish work at half past seven, then go back to the house to open a bottle of wine, have dinner, and then read or watch television.

Rivalry discovers that courtesy overlooks.

We have a tendency to put ourselves last, we concentrate on everything else; work, friends, family, home issues, but we ignore the deeper stuff until it becomes so compressed that it can explode.

I'm still awaiting the idea of drawing comics for a living being a reality. I feel like I've been dodging work for 20 years, and at some point, I'll have to get a real job.

Of all the movies I've done in my life, the one where I play a crazy awful psycho woman finds me my husband.

No mature style of art in any culture has ever been simple. In certain cultures, an overall symmetry may conceal the complexity of the work at first glance.

I guess that from the moment we are fed by our mothers, without even knowing it, we are caught in a net that brings us comfort, something we always feel when a special woman cooks for us. It is something unique and personal - it is something we want to keep for ourselves.

Count your age by friends not years. Count your life by smiles not tears.

Once you have somebody that is telling you, 'We are interpreting God for you,' it seems like you either agree or you don't. You either say, like Martin Luther, 'I'm going to have a direct relationship with the word of God,' or I'm going to go through a conduit of God on Earth,' which would be the Pope.

To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy.

Talent is a dull knife that will cut nothing unless it is wielded with great force.

I kind of lived by the code of 'I'm going to be a hard-working guy.' And no matter how successful, there is something I can do better. That's kind of the drive I live on.

And I think it's that time. And I think if you just step aside and Mr. Romney can kind of take over. You can maybe still use a plane. Though maybe a smaller one. Not that big gas guzzler you are going around to colleges and talking about student loans and stuff like that.

It’s not the load that breaks you down it’s the way you carry it