Awards are only a publicity gimmick.

There's only one thing worse than a man who doesn't have strong likes and dislikes, and that's a man who has strong likes and dislikes without the courage to voice them.

Every time I find a girl who can cook like my mother - she looks like my father

Museums, I love museums.

The real thing is, you should be seeing these plays in the Theatre. That's what they were written for. That's where the enjoyment is. Studying them is no enjoyment whatsoever.

Sooner or later, we sell out for money

You mustn't take any award so seriously.

Awards sell tickets, and they're a clever publicity stunt.

So many people have won Emmys, so many people have won multiple Emmys that I think it's a degraded award.

Marilyn Monroe was no fun to work with. She would report to work around 5:00 in the evening. You've been in make-up since 8:30 in the morning waiting for her.

Well, I'm a tape-recording nut. I like to play my tapes.

It was a subtle refinement of God to learn Greek when he wished to write a book – and that he did not learn it better.

Not all vampires are created equal.

There is no honor for God without honor for His people

I don't try to imagine a personal God; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it.

Free open-source software, by its nature, is unlikely to feature secret back doors that lead directly to Langley, Va.

For though Duncan was a mere mortal, flawed as well, he'd accomplished a daring feat. Aye, he'd captured an angel. And she belonged to him.

We made a film about the need for silence and withdrawal... and here we are at the epicentre of noise and excitement. Life is full of surprises.

I get to a point when I've collected together enough words that seem like they want to be songs rather than poems, or sometimes not.

Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.

An adventure is a situation where the outcome is not entirely within your control. It is up to fate, in other words