If a people have no word for something, either it does not matter to them or it matters too much to talk about.

Juvenile delinquency serves many purposes, including that of providing sadistic adults with fantasies suited to their special tastes.

What we must decide is how we are valuable rather than how valuable we are.

The teenager seems to have replaced the Communist as the appropriate target for public controversy and foreboding.

Not only do most people accept violence if it is perpetuated by legitimate authority, they also regard violence against certain kinds of people as inherently legitimate, no matter who commits it.

Human life is a continuous thread which each of us spins to his own pattern, rich and complex in meaning. There are no natural knots in it. Yet knots form, nearly always in adolescence.

It takes a kind of shabby arrogance to survive in our time, and a fairly romantic nature to want to.

Those who love the young best stay young longer.

No American is prepared to attend his own funeral without the services of highly skilled cosmeticians. Part of the American dream, after all, is to live long and die young.

Canadians are more polite when they are being rude than Americans are when they are being friendly.

All weakness tends to corrupt, and impotence corrupts absolutely.

Life is a great grace.

Music is often the spark that lights the fire of the soul.

Suddenly the images in the center of the room became more than images. They solidified.

Don't lie about it. You made a mistake. Admit it and move on. Just don't do it again. Ever

Friendship, sweet-resting place of the soul, the gloaming wherein our hearts find peace.

Scriptures - The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based.

I love, love, love women.

When I think of the standing, the importance and the erudition of all these people who see nothing about racism in Heart of Darkness, I'm convinced that we must really be living in different worlds.

I never thought I'd live to see the day that an American administration would denounce the state of Israel for rebuilding Jerusalem.

Normally, I rely heavily on my director to massage me out of my actor comfort zones.