At sea let the British their neighbours defy — The French shall have frigates to traverse the sky.

But fame is theirs - and future days On pillar'd brass shall tell their praise; Shall tell - when cold neglect is dead - "These for their country fought and bled."

If nothing once, you nothing lose, For when you die you are the same; The space between is but an hour, The frail duration of a flower.

Tobacco surely was designed To poison, and destroy mankind.

They saw their injured country's woe; The flaming town, the wasted field; Then rushed to meet the insulting foe; They took the spear, - but left the shield.

Red serpents, fiery forms, and yelling hags, Fit company for mad adventurers.

And long shall timorous fancy see The painted chief, and pointed spear, And Reason's self shall bow the knee To shadows and delusions here.

Jesus would never use government surrogates to force the people to help others.

They saw their injured country's woe.

i held it up, and tried to channel happy dog thoughts toward Cerberus- Alpo commercials, cute little puppies, fire hydrants.

When you write a movie, you have a hundred collaborators. But when you write a novel, it's yours.

Dignity high station or great riches are in some sort necessary to old men in order to keep the younger at a distance who are otherwise too apt to insult them upon the score of their age.

How do you put everyone in the pool, so you have the right to dry yourself in the sun?

I have lived and worked in Britain all my life. Not even in the dark days of penal Labour taxation in the Seventies did I have any intention of leaving the country of my birth.

things cannot be expected to turn up of themselves. We must in a measure assist to turn them up

When I say that asian women are beautiful it's not a sexual thing. I'm not being degrading, I find them sexually repulsive.

And this is the simple truth - that to live is to feel oneself lost. He who accepts it has already begun to find himself to be on firm ground.

Thank you for inviting me to your house, but I prefer to dine in the Greek restaurant at Wabash Avenue and 12th Street where I will be limited to finding dead flies in my soup.

I treat both acting and writing as a creation - writing is just another element or aspect of it.