TRUTHFUL, adj. Dumb and illiterate.

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.

People change. I wouldn't like to be accountable for the interviews I've done, or the person I was when I was 20, 21.

My family can always tell when I'm well into a novel because the meals get very crummy.

When I was 66, my wife June died of cancer. Two years later--a year and a half ago--I married Kristen McMain, the eternal companion who now stands at my side.

Gratitude is like a flashlight. If you go out in your yard at night and turn on a flashlight, you suddenly can see what's there. It was always there, but you couldn't see it in the dark.

I always found the film world unpleasant. It's all about the schedule, and never really flew for me.

Everybody teaches a system. I just try to shoot where I'm aiming. I play by sight and feel not by technical thoughts.

If every head of state and every government official spent an hour a day reading poetry we'd live in a much more humane and decent world.

If you're fortunate to have talent and getting paid for something you love doing. All you've got to do is perform for 90 minutes.

There is no likelihood that man can ever tap the power of the atom

The more comfort becomes your priority, the more contracted you become with fear.