The key to a woman's heart is an unexpected gift at an unexpected time.

I am not an Englishman, I was never an Englishman, and I don't ever want to be one. I am a Scotsman! I was a Scotsman and I will always be one.

I don't understand if you get caught in a fight, but take it out on a room, how that implies some psychiatric disorder.

Laughter kills fear, and without fear there can be no faith. For without fear of the devil there is no need for God.

A martini. Shaken, not stirred.

Love may not make the world go round, but I must admit that it makes the ride worthwhile.

If you have to resort to violence, you've already lost.

If you fear nothing, you love nothing. If you love nothing, what joy can there be in life?

I like women. I don't understand them, but I like them.

If you can't do it with one bullet, don't do it at all.

You write your first draft with your heart and you re-write with your head. The first key to writing is to write, not to think.

The greatest learner in the world is one who can entertain perspective and then drop it.

Cartels have spread and will spread as long as the world lacks an effective mechanism by which balanced expansion may be achieved without a resulting disruption of prices.

I have a much easier time imagining how we would understand the big bang, even though we can't do it yet, than I can imagine understanding consciousness.

I want a brighter word than bright

I don't want to be better than you or her or him - I want to be better than I am right now

When you work in TV, it's such a group effort, it's not about you.

But I love to feel events overlapping each other, crawling over one another like wet crabs in a basket

I don't know what else to tell you. I often think how different my life would have been - how much happier - if you'd been a part of it. One day.

Seventy-five percent of Americans don't even have passports. We don't even think about traveling beyond our borders.

I'm not super social, don't really go to parties, or basketball games, or football games very often, the big social occasions.