The Queen Elizabeth II provides vast amounts of entertainment for an age that has forgotten how to amuse itself unaided.

War is always a professional enterprise; despair is left to amateurs.

Agitation and commitment are dangerous for the peace of humanity, and the only thing which is even more dangerous is their absence.

Nothing is uncontroversial anymore, and very little is innocent.

This is a tragic world we live in.

To use the power of the bison, I had to perform that part of my vision for the people to see.

I learned the power of storytelling and the responsibility that people with influence have to speak out

The melody is the most important thing that must stay in the minds of the people who listen to you. No matter how many notes you play, you can't let them forget what the song is.

I believe every guitar player inherently has something unique about their playing. They just have to identify what makes them different and develop it.

I'll commit suicide before I vote on a clean minimum-wage bill.

I think writing is a very political act. I think that any writer who says it's not, is simply a writer who is disavowing the political connotations of what they write.

I have been working up until recently with Neil Simon, who has been adapting the character to me.

It's no longer good enough for us to tell kids who are different that it's gonna get better. We have to make it better now.

We shall have made such a blaze that men will remember us on the other side or the dark.

I have memories of films that nobody ever saw, that I was very proud of, and those are still great memories.