The art of politics is to separate actions from consequences

Be careful about Burma. Most people cannot remember whether it was Siam and has become Thailand, or whether it is now part of Malaysia and should be called Sri Lanka.

They keep telling us that in war truth is the first casualty, which is nonsense since it implies that in times of peace truth stays out of the sick bay or the graveyard.

The First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it.

A childish soul not inoculated with compulsory prayer is a soul open to any religious infection.

There's a whole journalistic-industrial complex dedicated to keeping newsprint, TV screens and radio waves clean of destabilizing scoops damaging to corporations or the state.

Nothing can inspire religious duty or animation but religion.

Pose a political threat to Business As Usual, and sooner or later, mostly sooner, someone will try to kill you.

The travel writer seeks the world we have lost - the lost valleys of the imagination.

In its attempt to crush the Black Panthers, the FBI engineered frequent arrests on the flimsiest of pretexts.

Despair is the central part of the psychopathology. For the handmaiden of gossip is treachery.

You can be good at technology and like fashion and art. You can be good at technology and be a jock. You can be good at technology and be a mom. You can do it your way, on your terms.

Men worry about childcare with their wallets, women feel it in their wombs.

Worry - a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.

... success always worries academics, when it moves into the popular world.

Forgiveness prompted by love is the only way to repair the devastation that so often mars our relationships.

I remember riding across the Brooklyn Bridge about 12 times because they wanted me to keep up with the helicopter, and I said, "Can you have the helicopter keep up with me, my calves are burning!"

But I love you, sir: And when a woman says she loves a man, The man must hear her, though he love her not.

I am just another fireman because the story focuses on Joaquin Phoenix's character, but I play Joaquin's close friend and I get burned up a little bit, but I don't die.

I always try to make work that activates the viewer to be a co-producer of our shared reality.

I love every bone in a woman's body, especially mine.