In the menu, there should be a climax and a culmination. Come to it gently. One will suffice.
I've had your tears with mine, and you've had mine with yours. I think that's more intimate even than a kiss.
In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.
Fiction, because it is not about somebody who actually lived in the real world, always has the possibility of being about oneself.
Early to bed and early to rise," Mazer intoned, "makes a man stupid and blind in the eyes.
The opposite of the happy ending is not actually the sad ending-the sad ending is sometimes the happy ending. The opposite of the happy ending is actually the unsatisfying ending.
I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.
That was a bizarre and unlikely event, which has misled a generation of drama students from my old drama school that dreams really do come true. I was an unemployed actor. I had been an actor for about eight years, and had worked in theater, and done a tiny bit of TV, and somehow an audition video of mine ended up on Kevin Costner's television screen, and he rang me up and invited me to fly first-class to Hollywood and be in his movie The Postman.
. . . the right to defend one's home and one's person when attacked has been guaranteed through the ages by common law.
Don't look up to heaven, for what will you see in the sky, except stars, luminous but cold, wholly insensitive to pity?
The Linux philosophy is "laugh in the face of danger". Oops. Wrong one. "Do it yourself". That's it.