No one wants the truth if it is inconvenient.

I know you're no worse than most men but I thought you were better. I never saw you as a man. I saw you as my father.

If I have to be alone I want to be by myself.

In the theater, while you recognized that you were looking at a house, it was a house in quotation marks. On screen, the quotation marks tend to be blotted out by the camera.

A character is defined by the kinds of challenges he cannot walk away from. And by those he has walked away from that cause him remorse.

Few of us can easily surrender our belief that society must somehow make sense. The thought that the State has lost its mind and is punishing so many innocent people is intolerable. And so the evidence has to be internally denied.

For the political world, I have come to believe, is fundamentally beyond anyone's control, yet we all go on as though it were a kind of vehicle that only needs a change of drivers in order to steer it away from its frequent hair-raising visits to the edge of the cliff.