If you go back through 2000 years, I guess luck, Marx, and God have made history, the three of them together.

Power in America today is control of the means of communication.

There is no excitement anywhere in the world, short of war, to match the excitement of the American presidential campaign.

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.

I saw Chungking for the first time more than 40 years ago - a city of hills and mists, of grays and lavenders, two rivers shaping it to a point and the cliff rising above me like a challenge.

If you make a living, if you earn your own money, you're free - however free one can be on this planet.

He who is created by television can be destroyed by television.

When a reporter sits down at the typewriter, he’s nobody’s friend.

The best time to listen to a politician is when he's on a stump on a street corner in the rain late at night when he's exhausted. Then he doesn't lie.

You can't get unless you give. And you have to give without wanting to get.

Quality in a classical Greek sense is how to live with grace and intelligence, with bravery and mercy.

The fact that my continuous and public rejection of Christianity does not worry me in the least should suggest to you just how inadequate I think your reasons for being a Christian are.

It has many forms, not all of which look like what you see in movies.

We need to broaden the horizon of our faith, putting more difficult tasks in front of us each time

When we talk to God, we're praying. When God talks to us, we're schizophrenic.

Self-doubt creates the impetus for learning but hinders adept use of previously established skills

Bon chance, mon ami," Dante called softly. Levet allowed himself a small smile. A vampire who could speak French. He couldn't be all bad.

I've never, ever had people being aggressive to me in public or abusing me, and actually quite a lot of men do say to me, 'You're quite good' - though they can't bear to go, 'You're great.'

Holocaust? Ninety million Indians? Only four million left? They all have casinos - what's to complain about?

By the time I came to L.A. I'd already cried on movies of the week with two of the women from 'Knots Landing'.

I am a great believer in naps, whatever age you are.