Good God, what a mess of draggle-tail impulses a man is--and a woman too, I guess.

It's so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.

Can you honestly love a dishonest thing?

Any man of reasonable intelligence can make money if that's what he wants. Mostly it's women or clothes or admiration he really wants and they deflect him.

Like most modern people, I don't believe in prophecy or magic and then spend half my time practicing it.

The words are meaningless except in terms of feeling. Does anyone act as the result of thought or does feeling stimulate action and sometimes thought implement it.

Are cats strange animals or do they so resemble us that we find them curious as we do monkeys?

War did not make a killer of me, although for a time I killed men.

In business and in politics a man must carve and maul his way through men to get to be King of the Mountain. Once there, he can be great and kind--but he must get there first.

Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms.

A reputation for money is almost as negotiable as money itself.

I am positive that flexibility is a feminine characteristic.

Surely wisdom will come as we listen to learn from children, parents, partners, neighbors, Church leaders, and the Lord.

I'm not a 'Star Wars' geek.

Quomondo sedet sola civitas. Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.

Are you Polish? Okay, I'll talk slower.

By my reckoning, I only need about 200 more takeout coffee cups to complete my bitterly ironic mosaic of Al Gore.

Justice and peace can only thrive together, never apart.

The way I sometimes approach my work, when I look at a script for the first time, is to identify what the archetypes are and what the writing is trying to do in that context.

As so often happens with Washington scandals, it isn't the original scandal that gets people in the most trouble - it's the attempted cover-up.

But there will come a time and a place to give back, and each individual will recognize that time and place.