Come on, a 25-page digression on god? You can’t have that kind of thing, cut it out!”

I found Bombay and opium, the drug and the city, the city of opium and the drug Bombay

My religion is no way of knowing me.

We're waiting for a glance or a word, some acknowledgement that we are here.

All I did was write it down, one word after the other, beginning and ending with the same one, Bombay.

The world is on fire; time is a bomb. Ten thousand years are not enough When so much remains to be done

The world is on fire time is a bomb.Ten thousand years are not enoughWhen so much remains to be done

He read because it gave him instant gratification in a way nothing else did, and as was the case with all addicts, gratification was the important thing.

There's nothing more demoralizing than a leader who can't clearly articulate why we're doing what we're doing.

Let’s pursue the visage of imagination

Its never the miles of traveling that counts, its what you have done along the way

We hoped against hope that what we had been doing was enough to prevent a riot. It was not enough.

There is really no room in any healthy diet for trans fat, artificial sweeteners, and artificial colors in food.

The middle course is the best.

Live now; be damn'd hereafter.

For me the greatest source of income is still movies. Nothing - stocks, financial speculation, real estate speculation or businesses - makes more money for me than making movies.

Steven Spielberg is going to release a biopic about Abraham Lincoln next year. Right, that's a good way to honor Lincoln – by sending people to the theater.

People who love to eat are always the best people.