Prayers belong strictly to the worship of God. Fasting is a subordinate aid, which is pleasing to God no farther than as it aids the earnestness and fervency of prayer.
A woman is just a script, but a cigar is a motion picture.
The creepy thing about battle is you always feel alone.
When you're at the end of your rope, all you have to do is make one foot move out in front of the other. Just take the next step. That's all there is to it
A film is like a battleground. It's love, hate, action, violence, death—In one word, emotions.
If a story doesn't give you a hard-on in the first couple of scenes, throw it in the goddamned garbage.
Life is in color, but black and white is more realistic.
But the point is, now, at this moment, or any moment, we're only cross-sections of our real selves. What we really are is the whole stretch of ourselves, all our time, and when we come to the end of this life, all those selves, all our time, will be us - the real you, the real me. And then perhaps we'll find ourselves in another time, which is only another kind of dream.
Fear only goes where it's invited to stay.
Come home to the affirmation that we have a dream. Come home to the conviction that we can move our country forward. Come home to the belief that we can seek a newer world. And let us be joyful in the homecoming.
I was nothing more than a thug with Tolstoy in my pocket.