Shakespeare without Othello, Lear, Macbeth and Hamlet would be all too much like Hamlet without the prince.

If science could get rid of consciousness, it would have disposed of the only stumbling block to its universal application.

Most men live like raisins in a cake of custom.

Once the anchor of reason has been cut, ones craft may go anywhere. One may become a St Francis or equally a Hitler.

To think at its best is to find oneself carried down the current of necessity.

When the man who knows all about the fruit fly chromosomes finds himself sitting next to an authority on Beowulf, there may be an uneasy silence.

Custom calls me to 't: What custom wills, in all things should we do't, The dust on antique time would lie unswept, And mountainous error be too highly heap't For truth to o'erpeer.

A delay want is never denial.

How am I, a writer, supposed to feel about having lost you to a reader?

I like to dress, I love to have make-up on, I like to do my hair.

I'm a very routine-oriented guy.

You don't have to work for a big corporation if you don't want to.

You know, Arabs are critical of United States foreign policy, but they also associate the U.S. with democratic principles and opportunity.

I never really considered acting as a career. I kind of fell into it. Originally, I wanted to be a painter.

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

When you're on the wrong road, sometimes the most progressive man is the one who goes backwards first. As long as there are such people, hope lies in our future.