Hatred is never anything but fear - if you feared no one, you would hate no one.

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

To say, my fate is not tied to your fate, is like saying your end of the boat is sinking.

The price of freedom is responsibility, but it's a bargain, because freedom is priceless.

This country is a one-party country. Half of it is called Republican and half is called Democrat. It doesn't make any difference. All the really good ideas belong to the Libertarians.

I've always thought that the stereotype of the dirty old man is really the creation of a dirty young man who wants the field to himself.

Life begins when you do.

I have no ego investment in being on the air. I don't knock others for whom that kind of attention is like oxygen, but I don't miss anything about it.

How many times has the end of the world been predicted? The same number of times the prediction has proved false.

Television is the medium of the 20th century.

The most mature human insight comes from one's introspection rather than from exterior research.

We have already said more goodbyes than are necessary. Those were goodbyes that brought about the end of partings. We taught each other that no parting is possible.

Storytelling is among the oldest forms of communication. Storytelling is the commonality of all human beings, in allplaces, in all times.

Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings.

May the arm of the first member of Congress, who proposes a national religion, drop powerless from his shoulder; his tongue cleave to the roof of his mouth and all the people say amen.

It is necessary to have a very liberal and simultaneously very conservative mentality to practice Tantric Zen.

A ministry of power must be the fruit of a holy, peaceful, loving intimacy with the Lord.

I'd love to live in Kent but it's all a question of work.

God is conscience. He is even the atheism of the atheist.

I was so used to doing art that my fingers were like albino spiders. So it was just natural for me to go to a typewriter and write poetry.

great villains make great movies.