It was 1943. The U.S. had already entered World War II, so I decided to join the army.

Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.

We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.

Using the device of an imaginary world allows me in some strange way to go to the central issues - it's one of many ways to express feelings about real people, about real human relationships.

Craftsmanship isn't like water in an earthen pot, to be taken out by the dipperful until it's empty. No, the more drawn out the more remains.

Keep reading. It's one of the most marvelous adventures that anyone can have.

He [the cat] liked to peep into the refrigerator and risk having his head shut in by the closing door. He also climbed to the top of the stove, discontinuing the practice after he singed his tail.

The only thing a cat worries about is what's happening right now. As we tell the kittens, you can only wash one paw at a time.

Is there worse evil than that which goes in the mask of good?

Seize the day, whatever's in it to seize, before something comes along and seizes you.

Thinking is a bit uncomfortable, but you'll get used to it. A matter of time and practice.

It takes a common thug to commit injustice, but it takes an exceptional thug to call it "social justice".

Those who have no hope pass their old age shrouded with an inward gloom.

That's what I'm interested in: the space in between, the moment of imagining what is possible and yet not knowing what that is.

I want to know everything about you, so I tell you everything about myself.

Today, unfortunately, the right to vote seems to have become a partisan issue. Democrats seek to guarantee and expand voting rights. Republicans try to undermine and suppress voting rights.

Getting socially outcast can be the best and most informative thing that can ever happen to you because you have to learn who you are separate from the pack.

The clear, unmistakable sign of a bureaucrat is somebody who worries about whether he has a window.

I think one should do what seems right. And if what seems right involves danger...well, one must risk the danger.

If it's going to really make them happy for me to do it, I'll do Walken. I've got no problem with it at all.

I can sell out Madison Square Garden masturbating