If you gamble long enough, you'll always lose -- the gambler is always ruined.

Welcome...to Jurassic Park!

Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had.

The extreme positions of the Crossfire Syndrome require extreme simplification - framing the debate in terms which ignore the real issues.

Let's be clear. The planet is not in jeopardy. We are in jeopardy. We haven't got the power to destroy the planet - or to save it. But we might have the power to save ourselves.

Books aren't written - they're rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn't quite done it.

You think you can destroy the planet? What intoxicating vanity. . . . . We've been residents here for the blink of an eye. If we're gone tomorrow, the earth will not miss us.

Life is wonderful. It's a gift to be alive, to see the sun and breathe the air. And there isn't really anything else.

It's better to die laughing than to live each moment in fear.

Do you know what we call opinion in the absence of evidence? We call it prejudice.

Social control is best managed through fear.

Sometimes life seems like a poorly designed cage within which man has been sentenced to be free.

Ideas take root at the oddest moments. Some grow into novels, the weaker ones wither and die.

I quit when I was 52, and everybody was telling me that I was too young and I'd be bored - all of those things.

Having everything is just an expression of complete inner freedom.

I've not got a first in philosophy without being able to muddy things pretty satisfactory.

As you interact with others, remember this: anytime a person's response is larger than the issue at hand, the response is almost always about something else.

The government that can take everything from somebody can take everything from everybody. And there ought to be a limit.

I think, [ "You're All That"] it's based around the biblical principles and truths that transformed me.

If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels.