Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.

I remember being handed a score composed by Mozart at the age of eleven. What could I say? I felt like de Kooning, who was asked to comment on a certain abstract painting, and answered in the negative. He was then told it was the work of a celebrated monkey. 'That's different. For a monkey, it's terrific.'

Igor Stravinsky, "London Magazin

I wish that the people who sing about the deeds of heroes would think about the people who have to clear up after them.

Terry Pratchett

This organization is created to prevent you from going to hell. It isn't created to take you to heaven.

Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.

Christ's grave was the birthplace of an indestructible belief that death is vanquished and there is life eternal.

Adolph Harnack

It's not like I sit around watching my movies again and again, but I've never quite believed actors when they say they don't watch themselves.

Kristen Stewart

To banish cares, scare away sorrow and soothe pain is the business of the poet and singer.

Bodenstedt

We cannot evoke the true spirit of sacrifice and velour, so long as we are not free. I know the British Government will not be able to withhold freedom from us, when we have made enough self-sacrifice. We must, therefore, purge ourselves of hatred.

Mahatma Gandhi

Survival was my only hope, success my only revenge.

Patricia Cornwell

Happy, even in anguish, is he to whom God has given a soul worthy of love and grief! He who has not seen the things of this world, and the heart of men in this double light, has seen nothing, and knows noting of the truth.

Victor Hugo

Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.

Martin Scorsese

I didn't grow up a theatre kid, going to theatre camps. I played sports, and that was my main direction. But luckily, I never had to choose between sports and theatre.

Aaron Tveit

A business like acting is 90% luck. You can be a star one minute and out of work the next.

Amber Tamblyn