Formal symbolic representation of qualitative entities is doomed to its rightful place of minor significance in a world where flowers and beautiful women abound.

It was the last weakness he meant to indulge in; and a man never lies with more delicious languor under the influence of a passion than when he has persuaded himself that he shall subdue it to-morrow.

George Eliot

Unlike my grandfather or my brother, I've actually been able to make some money at a racetrack.

John Malkovich

A fly may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.

Samuel Johnson

If you try to add to God's salvation you subtract. If you try to add to God's salvation you subtract. If you try to merit God's salvation you haven't believed at all, even if you try to do a little bit.

Timothy Keller

A character I would love to play is Iago, from Othello.

Tim Roth

I also turn down what's probably a good amount of coinage to be made out of playing dads, an incredible number of obnoxious dad.

Bill Pullman

Being a Jew is like walking in the wind or swimming: you are touched at all points and conscious everywhere.

Lionel Trilling

It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem --and in my esteem age is not estimable.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live.

Henry David Thoreau

I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.

Leo Rosten

Amazing that the human race has taken enough time out from thinking about food or sex to create the arts and sciences.

Mason Cooley

There are lots of people I admire and respect, but I don't necessarily want to be like them. I'm to happy being myself.

James D'arcy