Inconsistency is the bugbear of fools! I wouldn't give a damn for a fellow who couldn't change his mind with a change of conditions.

All nations want peace, but they want a peace that suits them.

The essence of war is violence. Moderation in war is imbecility.

Our society's values are being corrupted by advertising's insistence on the equation: youth equals popularity, popularity equals success, success equals happiness.

History is a record of exploded ideas.

In war the first principle is to disobey orders. Any fool can obey orders!

I know I have an awful lot to learn from the people of Minnesota.

All accidents and experiments, and discoveries, are what my work is about. The problem that I have as an artist is being way too critical.

I'm very fond of the Talent series, and also the Crystal Singer trio.

I like darkness and confusion and absurdity, but I like to know that there could be a little door that you could go out into a safe life area of happiness.

Once we start seeing video games that have more memorable characters, you'll see better movie adaptations.

I need to keep traveling, being a gypsy, having experiences and writing about them.

We can't any of us do all we would like, but we can do our best for every case that comes to us, and that helps amazingly.

I began to write a kind of waltz and in a little more than an hour I had the theme written.

In real life there are indeed black people who have been in the middle class for generations, but in entertainment it's as if they don't exist.

The theory that religion is a force for peace, often heard among the religious right and its allies today, does not fit the facts of history.