The bottom line is that time travel is allowed by the laws of physics.
The Communists offer one precious, fatal boon: they take away the sense of sin.
A political convention is just not a place where you come away with any trace of faith in human nature.
Any experience deeply felt makes some men better and some men worse. When it has ended, they share nothing but the recollection of a commitment in which each was tested and to some degree found wanting. [. . . ] The consequences of the journey change the voyager so much more than the embarking or the arrival.
A critic is someone who enters the battlefield after the war is over and shoots the wounded.
There is a raging tiger inside every man whom God put on this earth. Every man worthy of the respect of his children spends his life building inside himself a cage to pen that tiger in.
No great scoundrel is ever uninteresting.
I had done battle with a great fear and the victory was mine.
I don't trust a lot of popular films because they seem to indicate that people would like to be super-heroes or vampires, and that's the last thing I mean by the useful mirror of art.
My girlfriend's weird. One day she asked me, 'If you could know how and when you were going to die, would you want to know?' I said, 'No. ' She said, 'Okay, forget it.
Money and fame are trashy and don't guarantee happiness, but we all refuse really to know it.