How complicated and unpredictable the machinery of life really is.

You know, I think the main purpose of the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps is to get poor Americans into clean, pressed, unpatched clothes, so rich Americans can stand to look at them.

Most things in this world don´t work, aspirin do.

Symbols can be so beautiful, sometimes.

What war has always been is a puberty ceremony. It's a very rough one, but you went away a boy and came back a man, maybe with an eye missing or whatever but godammit you were a man and people had to call you a man thereafter.

Everything of mine which has been filmed so far has been one character short, and that character is me.

For a Russian to be chivalrous with an American is a spiritual impossibility, a conradiction in terms.