The longest lives are short; our work lasts longer.

A kiss without a mustache is like an egg without salt.

As an American I am of course fundamentally opposed to democracy and to anyone advocating or defending democracy, which in theory and practice is the basis of socialism.

Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.

Men in Government monopolize the necessary use of force; they are not using their energies productively; they are not milking cows. To get butter, they must use guns; they have nothing else to use.

No state, no government exists. What does in fact exist is a man, or a few men, in power over many men.

What I can't understand is, how can anybody figure now that the government can support us, when we support the government.

It was not seen that woman's place was in the home until she began to go out of it; the statement was a reply to an unspoken challenge, it was attempted resistance to irresistible change.

The need for Government is the need for force; where force is unnecessary, there is no need for Government.

We are never aware of the present; each instant of living becomes perceptible only when it is past, so that in a sense we do not live at all, but only remember living.

I'm not "filled with my art". I ain't got no art. I've got only a kind of craftsman's skill, and make stories as I make biscuits or embroider underwear or wrap up packages.

Our skin is very thin. It doesn't take much for us to jump off a ledge or to kill one another. It can happen very, very quickly.

Now Eros makes a man really want, not a woman, but one particular woman. In some mysterious but quite indisputable fashion the lover desires the Beloved herself, not the pleasure she can give.

I think God has a plan for all of us, and even if that plan includes Hell, its still a plan.

He never wears a watch (his own rebellion against time, against watching).

I don't lecture and I don't grind any axes. I just want to entertain.

We are ap tu hate them, who wont take our advice, and despise them who do.

This was good training for research, because large parts of experimental work are sometimes boring or involve the use of skills in which one is not particularly gifted.

Everything I learned as an actor, I have basically applied to writing.

Hard work is the price we must pay for success

Life is like a camera. Focus on what's important. Capture the good times. And if things don't work out, just take another shot.