The Conservative Party has one overriding concern in foreign policy, and that is the growth of Communist power and influence in the world, and the dangers it can bring for all of us.

For God's sake bring me a large Scotch. What a bloody awful country.

There comes a time in every man's life when he must make way for an older man.

To love God with all our heart, soul, and mind, and our neighbor as ourself.

It's a symbiotic process, writing. What I am makes the books—not part of me, all of me—and then the books themselves inform the sense of what I am. So the more I can be, the better the books will be.

Love what you do and do what you love, otherwise you will become unhappy and self-defeating.

The essence of cinema is editing.

Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere

I think it is a mistake to identify a movie according to its language, as if movies were literature.

Understanding is always the understanding of a smaller problem in relation to a bigger problem.

The Democratic and Republican parties, two apparently distinct political entities feeding at the same corporate trough.

I believe the world is beautiful, and poetry, like bread, is for everyone.

Brainy's the new sexy.