The film business was a great lesson in business combat and what it takes to survive.

I owe the public a good performance, the best I can give. We really bust our chops on 'CHiPs' but when I go home and get a weekend off, I want to spend it quietly, with my lady.

Nick chided a censor, who wished some books gone, and suggested she scan Fahrenheit 451. For the book-budget cutters, Old Claus had no plan, cause if they could read, they just read Ayn Rand.

Vulnerability is not about fear and grief and disappointment; it is the birthplace of everything we're hungry for.

This is the real tragedy of America's 'Internet freedom agenda': It's going to be the dissidents in China and Iran who will pay for the hypocrisy that drove it from the very beginning.

Vigorous organisms talk not about their processes, but about their aims.

No nation ancient or modern ever lost the liberty of freely speaking, writing, or publishing their sentiments, but forthwith lost their liberty in general and became slaves.

American Jews, like Americans, have a very consumerist attitude toward their identity: they pick and choose the bits of this and that they like.

The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.

We ourselves are the entities to be analyzed.

I know you're not supposed to have TV in your room, but I like watching a little. I need something mindless.

Preparedness is the ultimate confidence builder.