I was always an odd child, though I had no idea what odd was, really.

Free elections don't always result in fair elections.

Learn to appreciate the things you have in the life you're living. It is your present.

Karma means ‘action’. Like many, you misunderstand its nature. Past misdeeds can be corrected before your karma ripens: it is not some pre-determined fate. It is what you do now that counts.

If death shows up before my last breathe, I swear I'll kill death.

Family . . . the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children.

College kids, don't be taking examples from me.

I'm doing a book, 'Chasing Science,' about the pleasures of science as a spectator sport.

If you have $300,000 to shoot a cigarette on a table, it's an enormous amount of money. Maybe that's why my movies are the way they are. But it's the only way I can make a living.

I'm quite an example. I have four kids, all from the same wife, all from the same husband.

You can close your eyes if you want. Sometimes things are less scary.