I'd already made the decision before I'd even read it-just because it was John Sayles. Then when I read it, the themes were actually themes that have been a big part of my life.

These violent delights have violent ends.

William Shakespeare

Science by itself has no moral dimension. But it does seek to establish truth. And upon this truth morality can be built.

William Masters

My gosh, I love food. If I wasn't an actor, I could be a completely different body shape right now.

Hugh Jackman

If a turtle doesn't have a shell, is he homeless or naked?

Steven Wright

What good has impatience ever brought? It has only served as the mother of mistakes and the father of irritation.

Steve Maraboli

Of all created comforts, God is the lender; you are the borrower, not the owner.

Samuel Rutherford

Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance.

Walter Benjamin

It is easier for a Russian to become an atheist than for anyone else in the world.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Waste your money and you're only out of money, but waste your time and you've lost a part of your life.

Michael Leboeuf

I should feel the air move against me, and feel the things I touched, instead of having only to look at them. I'm sure life is all wrong because it has become much too visual - we can neither hear nor feel nor understand, we can only see. I'm sure that is entirely wrong.

D.H. Lawrence

I travel abroad constantly on book promotion and research, and the Internet is invaluable to me for accessing U.K. news in places such as America, which most of the time hasn't heard of England.

Peter James