I mean a lot of people think Im 19. I get carded all the time and no one think Im legal, like in the bedroom

It's not necessary to go far and wide. I mean, you can really find exciting and inspiring things within your hometown.

The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

When evil is allowed to compete with good, evil has an emotional populist appeal that wins out unless good men and women stand as a vanguard against abuse.

Politically, the weakness of the argument has always been that those who choose the lesser evil forget very quickly that they chose evil.

This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes.

The greatest enemy of authority, therefore, is contempt, and the surest way to undermine it is laughter.

One of the greatest advantages of the totalitarian elites of the twenties and thirties was to turn any statement of fact into a question of motive.

There is a strange interdependence between thoughtlessness and evil.

I would like to show the world today as an ant sees it and tomorrow as the moon sees it.

I'll remember your apocalypse if you'll remember mineIt will be a holiday of the senses

I grew up believing in Santa Claus, and we still treat our house at Christmas with a huge reverence for that belief - even though our children are 19 through 23.

It is perfectly possible to be a professional director or a professional writer and not to be an artist: merely a sort of executor of other people's ideas.

I don't think ordinary things are very interesting, so I try to imagine a world that is less ordinary.

Are you shooting webs of stupid at me?

Don't write too much. Concentrate your sweat on one story, rather than dissipate it over a dozen.

Last week I got a flu that I caught, 'cause my daughter coughed ... into my mouth.

The leadership spirit possess a natural love for all human beings.

. . . I believe one half of the world is born for the convenience of the other half . . .

The work I've done, I'm really feeling the effects of it.