On the other side of every mountain was another mountain.
You do not write your life with words. . . You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.
We don't say nothing more. What else is there to say? Everything and nothing. You can't say everything, so you don't say nothing.
I just stand there like a doofus wondering just what in the effing blazes is going on.
If you ever want to see how small you are in the plan of God, just stand at the edge of an ocean
Stories don’t end with the writers, however many started the race.
We have to lie to ourselves to live. Otherwise, we'd go crazy.
I was really interested in how marriages work, how you can, you know, be in love with somebody and spend many years with your lives intertwined, but in the end another soul can be fundamentally unknowable. And I think that the stress of war, when one party goes away and the other has to deal at home, is a really testing time in a lot of marriages.
Lofty words cannot construct an alliance or maintain it; only concrete deeds can do that.
I've decided to just keep doing Oh, Hello, where I play an older man who thinks he's very cultured. That clearly has not gone away.
Scientific and technological progress themselves are value-neutral. They are just very good at doing what they do. If you want to do selfish, greedy, intolerant and violent things, scientific technology will provide you with by far the most efficient way of doing so. But if you want to do good, to solve the world's problems, to progress in the best value-laden sense, once again, there is no better means to those ends than the scientific way.