Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman.

We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.

The most important office, and the one which all of us can and should fill, is that of private citizen.

Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.

Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.

The only title in our democracy superior to that of President is the title of citizen.

If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence.

It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.

The greatest menace to freedom is an inert people.

If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.

Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants.

This new world was a vicious, sleek world made of street lights and tight jeans, sharp smiles and fast cars. This was a city, edited. A city, pared down to its bare minimums, beautiful and abusive.

Any virus that's been sequenced today - that genome can be made.

...You know the mistrust of heights is the mistrust of self, you don't know whether you're going to jump.

Without my morning coffee I'm just like a dried up piece of roast goat.

If you make one mistake, it can result in vasectomy.

Learning starts with failure; the first failure is the beginning of education.

Men seem to be born with a debt they can never pay no matter how hard they try.

It is noble to pity a man who is cruel because he is weak, but it is idiotic and dangerous to allow him to have power.

Even when a film is finished, when I direct a film, sometimes it's a dark profession, but it requires a peculiar form of courage that I admire.

I think Paul Weitz is a really amazing director, obviously with tons of acclaim and stuff, but I still think he is underrated. And I think he's amazing to work with, so I was super lucky.