"When I'm on the court, I'm a follower."

“You did not come here to be normal, you came here to be you.”

“One thing I have seen over and over again in life is that there is virtually no correlation between intelligence and common sense. IQ doesn't seem to translate that way.”

Source : Vincent Bugliosi (1998). “No Island of Sanity: Paula Jones V. Bill Clinton : the Supreme Court on Trial”, Ballantine Books

“Forgiveness is not something that you do for someone else; it's something you do for yourself, To forgive is not to condone, it is to refuse to continue feeling bad about an injury.”

“As soon as I began, it seemed impossible to write fast enough – I wrote faster than I would write a letter – two thousand to three thousand words in a morning, and I cannot help it.”

“Vision looks inward and becomes duty.”

“Free expression is the base of human rights, the root of human nature and the mother of truth. To kill free speech is to insult human rights, to stifle human nature and to suppress truth.”

Source : "Liu Xiaobo: 'No Enemies, No Hatred,' Only Courage". Statement prepared for court, www.npr.org. February 16, 2012.

“I was making films about American society, and it is true that I never felt at home there, except perhaps when my wife and I lived on a farm in the San Fernando Valley. But I always wanted my characters to be more than cyphers for the failings of their world. And I never had to look too hard to find a part of myself in them”

“Progress of a marriage: There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me unhappy.”