I was perfectly content before I was born, and I think of death as the same state.

Clint, my hero, is coming across as sad and pathetic. He didn't need to do this to himself. It's unworthy of him.

I am grateful for the gifts of intelligence, love, wonder and laughter. You can't say it wasn't interesting.

The children of Birmingham did not really die in the State of Alabama, however, because Alabama is a state of mind, and in the minds of the [white] men who rule Alabama, those children had never lived [...] their blood is on so many hands, that history will weep in the telling...and it is not new blood. It is old, so very old.

We must try to contribute joy to the world... I didn't always know this and am happy I lived long enough to find it out.

It is comforting to think that we can love so powerfully that fate itself wheels and turns at the command of our souls.

If there is such a thing as a lock on an Oscar nomination, ... Hoffman has one.