Absolutism is a guarantee of objectionable morals in the same way that absolutism in government is a guarantee of objectionable government.

The female, not the male, determines all the conditions of the animal family. Where the female can derive no benefit from association with the male, no such association takes place.

For a male and female to live continuously together is biologically speaking, an extremely unnatural condition.

The effects of infantile instruction are, like those of syphilis, never completely cured.

No myth of miraculous creation is so marvelous as the face of man's evolution.

The old fellow who was cadging drinks from me the other night at the Cafe Royal told me he had known Julian Bern's people in the old days at Rome.

The full-grown modern human being ... is conscious of touching the highest pinnacle of fulfillment... when he is consumed in the service of an idea, in the conquest of the goal pursued.

Yes, you are creative and in slow, languid times, creativity peers out of your soul like a field mouse from its burrow at night.

An ounce of faith can overcome a ton of fear.

Religion has become an impersonal affair, an institutional loyalty. It survives on the level of activities rather than in the stillness of commitment.

Mickey Mouse was supposed to be called Mortimer, but Walt Disney’s wife found it creepy

You should be willing to do something that will take you five minutes or less for anybody.

When I came out of school I didn't even think that modeling was a job.

I'm so wrapped up in my work that it's often impossible to consider other things in my life. My marriage ended in divorce because of this, my relationship with Holly has suffered by this.

Harvester’s heart soared. Reaver had offered to castrate an archangel for her. How sweet was that?

It's part of your job as an actor to put your personal problems behind you and work. Good actors can do that.

Humans have changed little over time. We think we've invented the modern world but they were making better speeches 2,000 years ago and grappling with issues of empire and terrorism.