Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done and it remains the hardest work I have done to date.

When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains and the women come out to cut up what remains jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier.

How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible whatever remains however improbable must be the truth?

It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible whatever remains however improbable must be the truth.

When you have eliminated the impossible whatever remains however improbable must be the truth.

It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else's meal like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.

Once you eliminate the impossible whatever remains no matter how improbable must be the truth.

I tend not to trust people who live in very tidy houses. I know that on the surface there is nothing wrong with a person being well-ordered and disciplined. Nothing except that it leaves the impression of that person having lived in the confines of a stark institution which although he or she has long since left remains within.

Time is not a thing thus nothing which is and yet it remains constant in its passing away without being something temporal like the beings in time.

The technology is really where all of the changes have taken place but the fundamentals of a good story being the basis of every good picture and really the only basis still remains the rule more so today I think because we've unfortunately weaned an audience from birth to kind of mindless movies.