I'm very wary of news on television.

Again, in Wag the Dog, war has to be declared by an act of congress. But if you go to war, you don't have to declare war. You're just at war and we did that, which is not legal.

I saw the horizon. It's out there. And though I may not ever be able to touch it, it's worth reaching for.

Postman is a media analyst and his theory is that television doesn't influence our culture, but that it is our culture and the presidency and anything that relies on television.

There is no normal life, there's just life. You live it.

I respect people who can do both careers, like Will Smith and a couple of other people who have done it, but I just don't know when they sleep.

I don't make any pretense about being normal. I'm not.

Give me the compliments. I love compliments. I was born modest, but it wore off.

Without deadlines and restrictions I just tend to become preoccupied with other things.

Warren Beatty once told me that if someone's really stuck on you, find them their next boyfriend. But I could never do that.

That's the joy of art - it should be dangerous and challenging but it's just art - it's safe.

No genuine revolutionary challenge to either the State or Capitalism in the United States can fail to ignore racism's importance in maintaining the current system.

If we do not restore the Institution of Property we cannot escape restoring the Institution of Slavery

The present moment is the only time that is eternal and the only time in which we can experience happiness.

...You'd think the little part about them supposedly killing us would be the attention getter.

Never underestimate the power of a bossy woman.

Time will come; we will plant trees to other planets! I see the orange trees and the cherries in the far lands beyond the earth.

I was very outgoing, and a good-looking kid. I started doing all the catalogs. I made 60 commercials by the time I was 6. I must have been a natural, because I never took an acting lesson.

The forms have value only so far as they are expressions of the life within. If they have ceased to express life, crush them out without mercy.

People who used magic without knowing what they were doing usually came to a sticky end. All over the entire room, sometimes.

Venerable to me is the hard hand,--crooked, coarse,--wherein, notwithstanding, lies a cunning virtue, indispensably royal as of the sceptre of the planet.