Providing for one's family as a good husband and father is a water-tight excuse for making money hand over fist.

The much vaunted male logic isn't logical, because they display prejudices against half the human race that are considered prejudices according to any dictionary definition.

There is a hidden fear that somehow, if they are only given a chance, women will suddenly do as they have been done by.

Sadly, man recognises that the ideal, submissive woman he has created for himself is somehow not quite what he wanted.

Nothing comes back. The eye sees for a moment, the ear hears, but look, now it is gone.

For centuries the word 'nature' has been used to bolster prejudices or to express, not reality, but a state of affairs that the user would wish to see.

But the gates of my happy childhood had clanged shut behind me; I had become adult enough to recognize the need to conceal unbearable emotions for the sake of others.

grievance does not make for great art.

Freedom does that to people, he realizes. Once you've tasted it, ou never want to let go.

When you give away everything without expecting anything in return, only then will everything belong to you.

I realized someone else might tell you you're pretty. I'd do anything to keep you away from that person.

Don't be a tourist. Plan less. Go slowly. I traveled in the most inefficient way possible and it took me exactly where I wanted to go.

The mathematician who pursues his studies without clear views of this matter, must often have the uncomfortable feeling that his paper and pencil surpass him in intelligence.

I've learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision.

Heroes betray us. By having them, in real life, we betray ourselves.

I don't even give my scripts to friends because I just feel it's, like, I don't need one more set of opinions.

I often give my wife Carol scripts I'm offered and want her opinion - because she's a really smart lady, and she's got nothing to do with this business, so I get the audience's point of view.