I've always been a writer because I've always been a student. My mom's a retired professor, so I come from a very academic background. I love writing, you know?

People travel for the same reason they collect works of art: because the best people do it

Aldous Huxley

I don't like this idea of Method. I come from that school, but what I was taught was that it's your imagination. You do your homework, and you use your imagination.

Mark Ruffalo

If you imagine someone with 100 percent determination and 100 percent intelligence, you can discard a lot of intelligence before they stop succeeding. But if you start discarding determination, you very quickly get an ineffectual and perpetual grad student.

Paul Graham

In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.

Erich Fromm

Oh, the relationship with actors and managers and agents and things is a terrible problem sometimes.

John Schlesinger

Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience. You will find it a calamity.

Samuel Johnson

...if desire is predominant it can deform love between man and woman and rob them both of it.

Pope John Paul II

It's not given to people to judge what's right or wrong. People have eternally been mistaken and will be mistaken, and in nothing more than in what they consider right and wrong.

Leo Tolstoy

We know not of the future and cannot plan for it much.

Joshua Chamberlain

He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God; but he who really thinks has to believe in God.

Isaac Newton

You have to believe that it's through politics that societies can lead social and economic and political change.

David Miliband

Reading a script is usually as exciting as reading a boilerplate legal document, so when you read one that makes you feel as if you're seeing the movie, you know it's something different.

Tom Hanks