I'm not sentimental about war. I see nothing noble in widows.

You British plundered half the world for your own profit. Let's not pass it off as the Age of Enlightenment.

Ma, sooner or later there comes a point in a man's life when he's gotta face some facts. And one fact I've got to face is whateverit is women like, I ain't got it.

Stop thinking about writing as art. Think of it as work. If you’re an artist, whatever you do is going to be art. If you’re not an artist, at least you can do a good day’s work.

It's always the generals with the bloodiest records who are the first to shout what a hell it is. And it's always the war widows who lead the Memorial Day parades.

Americans don’t want drama, especially good drama, they just want their boredom killed.

Artists don't talk about art. Artists talk about work. If I have anything to say to young writers, it's stop thinking of writing as art. Think of it as work.

The worst kind of censorship is the kind that takes place in your own mind before you sit down to a typewriter.

Television is the menace that everyone loves to hate but can't seem to live without.

God save us from people who do the morally right thing. It's always the rest of us who get broken in half.

Television is democracy at its ugliest.

All idealisation makes life poorer. To beautify it is to take away its character of complexity — it is to destroy it.

One of the most foolish of all human philosophies, is to believe that we all have an unavoidable destiny.

There are some sufferings that we seem as a creature to forget, or we would never survive as a creature among all the other creatures.

Even so We find the sea of sorrow. Black as night The sullen surface meets our frightened gaze, As down we sink to darkness and despair.

The Human Species could have been great but instead we became satisfied with lights on our tennis shoes.

A proud woman who has learned to submit carries all her pride to the reinforcement of her submission, and looks down with severe superiority on all feminine assumption as unbecoming.

I don't have joy in watching myself, whereas, actually, I quite like listening to my own music.

What really matters to me is what my peers think.

As long as you are performing prayer, you are knocking at the door of Allah, and whoever is knocking at the door of Allah, Allah will open it for him.

I like producing but acting is the quintessential me, and I'm probably better at that than I am at anything. My heart has always been in the movies.