As long as you live, you hope. You think that everything will just...get better.

Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.

When a war is won, it's the losers, not the winners, who are liberated.

The avantgarde are people who don't exactly know where they want to go, but are the first to get there.

They thought I suffered from lack of exterior, when I suffered from excess of interior

...the only way to prove you are normal is to smash someone's face in

I've had a lot of fun. Good-bye, and thank you.

Men sometimes die much earlier than they are burried.

A writer's subconscious is one of the filthiest places there are: as a matter of fact, you can find the whole world there.

Reality is not an inspiration for literature. At its best, literature is an inspiration for reality.

If there is something that opens horizons, it is precisely ignorance.

Effective leaders make it easy for people around them to tell the truth, to be candid and open.

Both teachers and learners go to sleep at their post as soon as there is no enemy in the field.

The world knows nothing of its greatest men.

You have a feeling when you're recording, like, 'This is gonna translate really well, ' and when you see it live, and it kind of proves that, that's an amazing feeling.

You don't have to own a TV network to go out and do a cool show.

How easy it was to lie to strangers, to create with strangers the versions of our lives we imagined.

I believe that we're in an ideological struggle; I believe the only way to marginalize those who murder the innocent, to achieve our ideological objectives, is to spread democracy and freedom.

...the greatest political problem facing the world today is...how to curb the oppressive power of government, how to keep it within reasonable bounds.

Just keep going. Everybody gets better if they keep at it.

As an actor you're used to being the focus of attention.