When you're at war, you think about a better life; when you're at peace you think about a more comfortable one.

Many great writers have been extraordinarily awkward in daily exchange, but the greatest give the impression that their style was nursed by the closest attention to colloquial speech.

The revival in religion will be a rhetorical problem - new persuasive words for defaced or degraded ones.

There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.

If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent.

Some say that we shall never know, and that to the gods we are like the flies that the boys kill on a summer's day, and some say, to the contrary, that the very sparrows do not lose a feather that has not been brushed away by the finger of God.

All that we know about those we have loved and lost is that they would wish us to remember them with a more intensified realization of their reality. What is essential does not die but clarifies. The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.