People who like to fume about the manner in which Disney changed beloved classics are often ignorant of history, not to mention the realities of show business.

One should always avoid unnecessary unhappiness. Especially if one is an immortal. They taught us that in school.

If you want to see what stage comedians did to get laffs a century ago, watch the 1910 'Wizard of Oz.' I hope you have a high tolerance for pratfalls.

England was a cold, backward, rebellious little kingdom. It's king: Henry the Eighth, remembered principally for his six wives and the chicken legs clutched in his fat fists.

Romantic Orientalism was fascinated by the color and excitement of a powerful culture, and nearly always approached its subject with love.

I detest flying anywhere. Left to my own devices, I'd never leave my keyboard.

In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.

The 1910 Edison film of Frankenstein was itself a dead thing revived by technology.

I may cut my coat to follow fashion, sir, but not my conscience.

I want you to tell all these people that I wanted more time to spend with them. Tell them I meant to, tell them I wanted to hear what they said and tell them what was on my mind.

Career is just posh slavery.

Every loss is temporary. Every victory is eternal.

I am sick of diseases, I want to know origins and processes…If we are to prevent disease it is to the beginning of the chain of accumulating stresses that we must look.

Work is a surefire money-making scheme.

The scope of material I can work with is not limited to the set of things that we inherit from nature.

Alexander at the head of the world never tasted the true pleasure that boys of his own age have enjoyed at the head of a school.

Loneliness is inner emptiness. Solitude is inner fulfillment.

The environment is better and better for Democrats.

Enjoy now, another now is coming.

If youve ever had that feeling of loneliness, of being an outsider, it never quite leaves you. You can be happy or successful or whatever, but that thing still stays within you.