All people deserve respect, but not all ideas do.

The climate-change deniers are rapidly ending up with as much intellectual credibility as creationists and Flat Earthers. They are nudging close to having the moral credibility of Holocaust deniers.

So the opposite of addiction is not sobriety. It is human connection.

I got my dad a great father's Day present. He called to say: 'Ach. Zis present is so good I now think it vas almost vorth having children.

I'm so patriotic, I think every British kid should have a chance to grow up to be our head of state.

The US head of state grew up on food stamps. The British head of state grew up on the postage stamps.

The truth emerging from this scattered picture of nuclear proliferation is simple: there is a stronger chance of a nuclear bomb being used now than at almost any point in the Cold War.

I respect you as a person too much to respect your ridiculous beliefs.

I’ll never speak to God again.

The only impeccable writers are those who never wrote.

In a strange way, I envied the quality of Morrie's time even as I lamented its diminishing supply. Why did we bother with all the distractions we did?

Cinema is an art form.

I think that's Glassjaw's identity - the disconnect between what we think we are and what our fans think we're supposed to be. Whenever I read reviews of our stuff, I sense that.

It is only love that has already fallen sick that is killed by absence.

O, if there be any kind of life most sad, and deepest in the scale of pity, it is the dry, cold impotence of one, who has honestly set to the work of his own self-redemption.

We also have no incentive compensation of any kind. And the reason we don’t is because it is detrimental to teamwork.

Your work is carved out of agony as a statue is carved out of marble.

The best business returns are usually achieved by companies that are doing something quite similar today to what they were doing five or ten years ago.