The Christian notion of the possibility of redemption is incomprehensible to the computer.

Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done

The most common characteristic of all police states is intimidation by surveillance. Citizens know they are being watched and overheard. Their mail is being examined. Their homes can be invaded.

If the person you are trying to diagnose politically is some sort of intellectual, the chances are two to one he is a Democrat.

Furthermore, unlike Man's other great good friend the horse, the cat is no sweating serf of Man. The only labor she condescends to perform is to catch mice and rats, and that's fun.

You can't tell a millionaire's son from a billionaire's.

The difference between a top-flight creative man and the hack is his ability to express powerful meanings indirectly.

Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

But things change, people change, Gaby. Otherwise what would be the point of living?

All kids, I think, are creative, but they get it pounded out of them in school.

In a film, you have to externalize things that are internal and of course it becomes a debate about to what extent you do that.

I don't want people to forget Babe Ruth. I just want them to remember Henry Aaron.

I've admired Bill Kauffman's books for years . . . appealing, elegantly written, and entirely American.

It took the first 204 years of our Nation's history to accumulate $1 trillion in debt. And now we are doing that every 2 or 3 years.

The New Testament witnesses were fully aware of the background against which the resurrection took place.

I'm not a politician. I'd make a lousy politician.

People take songs so literally.

Consciousness ... is the phenomenon whereby the universe's very existence is made known.