Each new development starts from something else. It does not come out of a blue sky. You make use of that which has already entered the mind.... That is the real reason for accumulating knowledge.

What gets measured, gets done. And what gets recognized gets done again, and even better.

A soup so thick you could shake its hand and stroll with it before dinner.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

I'm not nervous if I think about something for nine years and then I don't write it. Even if it fades it doesn't concern me. It'll come back if it's worth it.

My boyfriend is Italian and from New Jersey, so naturally he was thrilled to meet Joe Pesci.

You are an atrocious person! Since the day I met you I have become steadily more depraved.

Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.

Popular sovereignty has to be given by a people to itself, and this is the important meaning of self-determination.

Sickness is a belief, which must be annihilated by the divine Mind.

I didn't say I liked it Harry. I said it fascinated me. There is a great difference.

Each one [movie] is very important to us and from a fiscal responsibility, filmmakers understand that it's highly personal for us and they've been great about it.