One engaged in a commercial pursuit. A commercial pursuit is one in which the thing pursued is a dollar.

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog.

War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.

In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.

Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.

Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking.

Spring beckons! All things to the call respond; the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond.

NEPOTISM, n. Appointing your grandmother to office for the good of the party.

Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.

Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron - namely, that he is a blockhead.

The first duty of a man is to think for himself

I curse the heavens for letting the stars fall, I curse myself for not being there to catch them.

The one thing worth living for is to keep one's soul pure.

Getting to make the music, and having a good time doing it, is the most important thing to us.

That's another piece of advice: Don't go to college; follow your dreams. Unless you're a doctor - then go to college.

I'm still trying to express my truth, my place in the world, my belief.

Perhaps even more than elsewhere current notions of what is desirable and practicable are here still of a kind which may well produce the opposite of what they promise.

Nobody now is going from department to another department. Only Walt did that. I was very fond of him, really.

One thing is clear, everyone, no matter what their professional or material status, no matter what their influence on various state structures, must obey the law.

You should bear in mind that almost all my documentaries are feature films in disguise.