In the olden days, of course, cigarette companies would pay to have their product advertised in movies and to have actors smoke cigarettes.[Ronald Reagan used to do it.]

I have always been fascinated by the corruption of power.

I have only one loyalty - to my writing. I never wanted to be the head of a studio or a producer.

That's sort of what I felt... I miss drinking, I thought bars were truly holy places.

Cigarettes are not a part of human behaviour, they are a habit.

The studios have been taken over by marketing people and accountants.

Let's make Joe Lieberman accountable for his rhetoric. Not a penny more until he 'clarifies' his position to the satisfaction of our creative freedom.

Politics has become entertainment.

I worry that we are approaching a time when that which is shocking is squeezed out by the Stalinism of political correctness.

My father could have been deported because on his immigration application he said that he was a printer, obviously because he didn't want them to be checking his writings.

I have my own religious bond with the God in my own head.

You have no control over your growth or development. But you have a control on the direction of your growth and development! Go, grow towards impact directions!

Your love, not your worry, is the most valuable thing any of us can give our children.

bottom of page 33:We all want to feel needed, and we also want to be with people who can manage on their own, if needbe.

Let animals live like animals; let humans live like humans. That's my whole philosophy in a sentence.

I live in a house that was built in 1480. It has a moat around it. It is like a little baby castle.

Can those entrusted with the gravest authority set any example save that of the sternest obedience to the law?

During the Tertiary period the whole valley of Mexico was one great lake.

I had a lot of hurts and confusions. You know, it's hard when you're a kid to be different. You're all full of things, and you don't know that it's about.

If I were a teacher, I would recommend that all my students very hurriedly read most of Orwell's books, especially 1984 and Animal Farm, because then they'd begin to understand the world we live in.

Femininity and masculinity are social constructs. Female and male are biological. We don't have to learn to be men or women but we do have to learn to be ladies and gentlemen.