Sometimes you have to trust people enough to let them succeed and love them enough to let them fail..

The story itself, the true story, is the one that the audience members create in their minds, guided and shaped by my text, but then transformed, elu….

Thanks from keeping me from being a liar," said Nikolai. "What?" "About your having diarrhea." "For you I'd get dysentery." "Now that's friendship..

I learned to separate the story from the writing, probably the most important thing that any storyteller has to learn-that there are a thousand right….

I hope I am remembered by my children as a good father..

You killed more people than anybody in history." "Be the best at whatever you do, that's what my mother always told me..

Civilisation is only a pretense. In crisis we have become mere apes again, forgetting the rational biped of our pretensions and instead becoming the ….

I've learned much, Father, and this above all: that no station in life is above any other, if it's occupied by someone with a good heart..

Ethan Wyeth: I hope you're thirsty." Gideon Wyeth:"Why?" Ethan: "Cause your dumb and ugly, but I can do something about thirsty..

Withholding a decision is a decision..

And yet.. even if you had been right, it would only have been by accident. A broken clock is right two times a day..

Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken..

I have hope for you, if only because you're the only one left to hope for..

Regardless of law, marriage has only one definition, and any government that attempts to change it is my mortal enemy. I will act to destroy that gov….

If only we were wiser or better people, perhaps the gods would explain to us the mad, unbearable things they do..

It's simple. Nothing exists except in relation to something else..

He is dangerous, he is beautiful, I could drown in his understanding..

I think you don't grow up until you stop worrying about other people's purposes or lack of them and find the purposes you believe in for yourself..

Reasonable argument is impossible when authority becomes the arbiter..

This emotion I'm feeling now, this is love, right?.

Thank you for this, Peter. For dry eyes and silent weeping. You taught me how to hide anything i felt. More than ever, i need that now..