But theater, because of its nature, both text, images, multimedia effects, has a wider base of communication with an audience. That's why I call it the most social of the various art forms.

Romance is the sweetening of the soulWith fragrance offered by the stricken heart.

For now, let us simply observe that the assault on human dignity is one of the prime goals of the visitation of fear, a prelude to the domination of the mind and the triumph of power

Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress truth.

For the fire consumes all but the arsonist.

I grew up in an atmosphere where words were an integral part of culture.

Each time I think I've created time for myself, along comes a throwback to disrupt my private space.

Under a dictatorship, a nation ceases to exist. All that remains is a fiefdom, a planet of slaves regimented by aliens from outer space.

I'm not one of those writers I learned about who get up in the morning, put a piece of paper in their typewriter machine and start writing. That I've never understood.

And I believe that the best learning process of any kind of craft is just to look at the work of others.

Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.

Listen to the child in you and follow its innocence

Just as the world spun us into existence, it will spin on long after we are gone.

I look back on my life like a good day's work it is done and I am satisfied with it.

I been blessed with an opportunity, I'm extremely appreciative of it, but if I'm not enjoying it then I messed up, real bad.

Promoters compete for fighters, fighters compete for titles.

If you have $300,000 to shoot a cigarette on a table, it's an enormous amount of money. Maybe that's why my movies are the way they are. But it's the only way I can make a living.

I recognise that Socialism has ended its purely theoretical course, and that the hour to construct has come.

I believe America is safest and strongest when we are leading the world and we are leading strong alliances.

It's perfectly understandable and proper for one to be anti-Semite, but to exterminate women and children is so extraordinary, it's hard to believe. No defendant here wanted that.

There's something scary about stupidity made coherent.