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.

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.

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

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.

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.

There is a magic in distance. Look back at the golden lamp-lit rooms of your home from the road of your life, and it all for a moment is exactly how you hoped it would be: warm, peaceful, safe.

All gods are one God, and all goddesses are one Goddess, and there is one Initiator.

How can you have a director that doesn't go to work with the crew every day and talk to them?

I want to give producers more financial security.

That's the greatest sin a director can commit; to make a film simply because he wants to make a film.

The protected place in space and time that we once called childhood has grown shorter.

I make a dog-friendly version of almost everything that we make for dinner.

American Conservatism is finished, and its remaining adherents are, whether they know it or not, merely ghosts wandering, mazed, in the daylight.

Should you trust a stockbroker who's married to a travel agent?

Even with my wife, I find sharing soup is hard.