Had I been present at the Creation, I would have given some useful hints for the better ordering of the universe.

Sensible men no longer belive in miracles; they were invented by priests to humbug the peasants.

If God had consulted me before embarking on the Creation, I would have suggested something simpler.

It sounds kind of flighty, filmmaker-y, but I believe films are a piece of art. They are meant to be what they're meant to be, and sometimes the artist is informed by the film of what it needs to be.

Alcoholics are mostly disappointed men.

A library is a place full of mouth-watering food for thought.

The only reason you should be an entrepreneur is because that's the only way the idea will come into the world.

Golf is 20 percent mechanics and technique. The other 80 pecent is philosophy, humor, tragedy, romance, melodrama, companionship, camaraderie, cussedness and conversation.

The things that are done in the name of the shareholder are, to me, as terrifying as the things that are done - dare I say it - in the name of God.

The notion that human life is sacred just because it is human life is medieval.

Detachment is the ultimate pleasure.

You win one and then you win another. You feel more comfortable and more confident, and it snowballs. You can't wait to get to the next hole and play better.