[John] McCarthy's regime was ended by Senators who realized that he had gone too far. What we have now may be more insidious.

I always wanted to be a lawyer,but I certainly never wanted to be a trapeze performer.

There is a seamless web to life.. all life is sacred.

I think Obama is possibly the most dangerous and destructive president we have ever had

A lot of people in the adult population have a very limited idea as to why they are Americans, why we have a First Amendment or a Bill of Rights.

Do not categorize about music. You take each musician at the time and open yourself to that musician.

I was introduced to jazz, and that's become a basic concern and passion of mine ever since.

My parents were Orthodox Jews but not very regular Orthodox Jews. I was bar mitzvahed and all that. But God was hardly ever mentioned in my family. Franklin D. Roosevelt was.

The media ignores what is really going on.

I would bet there is no place in the United States where the First Amendment would survive intact.

What we have now in America is a surveillance society.

Cut the crap! I don’t care how many hours you work, I care how much work you do in those hours.

Frame everything and some of it will become art.

Atheism is a system which can communicate neither warmth nor illumination, except from those fagots which your mistaken zeal has lighted up for its destruction.

It's only a little difficult to say no. You've got to believe that the work you're doing is ultimately more useful to the world.

If Heaven is willing to sing to us, it is little to ask that we be ready to listen.

There are two completely different Britains. There's London, and there's the rest of Britain.

It's hard as a person to just put your life out there for the world to judge. That's what music is and what you're supposed to do with the art, live and release it to the world.

Actors are able to trick themselves into treating anything as if it's fantastic. It's a kind of madness really.

If I see MS Dhoni coming to bat at number 4, I will be the happiest person on earth

Absolutely not, because in acting I've found a domain that suits me perfectly. And that is so utterly rare.