Celebrity - I don't even know what that means. Obviously it's the same basic word as celebration, but I don't know what's being celebrated.

The only reason people lock their car doors when Obama walks by is they are afraid he'll tax them to death...

Sometimes the way you respond to horrific, evil deeds is the measure of one's self as a man, as a nation, as people, as a community.

I'm absolutely gonna win it, because I'm ruthless. I sit at the poker table and my job is to destroy people.

...simple logic tells you that if somebody wants you dead you have one course of action: To get them deader sooner.

Just curious. Does the president of the United States have any advice for other teenage boys in America? Wounded warriors, for example . . .

It is okay to fall, but not okay to stay on the ground.

The whole world has gone back to something we are genetically engineered to do - communicating through symbols.

No matter what it is, if you get 10 people in the business talking about something, you get 10 different opinions, but you know, they're amazingly well informed.

Look, just go sit at the card table with the rest of the kids and let the adults run the country.

The lifeblood of my career has been independent film.

Gray hairs signify old age, not wisdom.Muscles signify strength, not health.Laughter signifies amusement, not joy.Weeping signifies pain, not weakness.Smiling signifies courteousness, not love.

Because religion has such a compelling hold on the deep psyches of so many people, feminists cannot afford to leave it in the hands of the fathers.

I never drink without a thirst, either present or future.

Consensus politics means that you cannot afford to give the many-headed beast, the public, anything to vote against, for voting against is what gargantuan pseudodemocracy has to come down to.

Major labels didn't start showing up really until they smelled money, and that's all they're ever going to be attracted to is money-that's the business they're in- making money.

The minute we begin to think we have all the answers, we forget the questions.

A job is something we do to get a paycheck and pay our bills. Jobs are legitimate, at times, but work is why we are here in the universe. Work and calling often go together.

Only God is able to humble us without humiliating us and to exalt us without flattering us.

Killing one man is murder. Killing millions is a statistic

William: "I'm sure we can all pull together, sir." Vetinari: "Oh, I do hope not. Pulling together is the aim of despotism and tyranny. Free men pull in all kinds of directions.