No sketches first, no studies, that

Wisdom is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.

John Cheever

The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.

Robert M. Hutchins

...once you've crawled into what's commonly thought of as the sordid underbelly of life, you realize it's all just different versions of normal.

Josh Kilmer-Purcell

Doubt is the father of invention.

Galileo Galilei

I would say that playing this character has caused me to think about a lot of things. He's always questioning himself and trying to get back to something he lost touch with and trying to find forgiveness. Everybody struggles with these things to some extent in their life.

Lee Tergesen

Coming home from very lonely places, all of us go a little mad: whether from great personal success, or just an all-ight drive, we are the sole survivors of a world no one else has ever seen.

John Le Carr, The Chancellor Who

I'm so critical of myself. I'm actually really, really proud of the film. It's really cool to see a movie at Sundance because everybody is so supportive.

Giovanni Ribisi

Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.

Thomas Jefferson

Notwithstanding this high Ecclesiastical authority, he who dared accept truth only because it could be proved, or proved to be good, and disregard authority, was commonly stigmatized as an infidel.

Ethan A. Hitchcock

The reason authors almost always put a dedication on a book, Annie, is because their selfishness even horrifies themselves in the end.

Stephen King

So I became a newspaperman. I hated to do it but I couldnt find honest employment.

Mark Twain

Folly is perennial, yet the human race has survived.

Bertrand Russell