The man who says what he thinks is finished, and the man who thinks what he says is an idiot.

Men may be linked in friendship. Nations are linked only by interests.

Truth is with the victors-who, as you know, also controls the historians.

Nationality was the most pernicious, depersonalizing, homogenizing label that could ever be attached to the human individual.

When kindness comes at the expense of truth, it is not a kindness worth having. And when generosity leads to silence or abuse, it is not a generosity worth giving.

I mean, wha comfort does pretendin to be a Buddhist or wharrever give him? What's wrong with pretendin to be a Catholic like the rest of us?

A lot of high school students on TV and in Broadway are played by people in their late 20s and even early 30s. That seems weird to me.

Recall that whatever lofty things you might accomplish today, you will do them only because you first ate something that grew out of the dirt.

Girls liking bad boys is the cookie jar complex. When somebody tells you you can't have a cookie, you want a cookie. But I live in a bad-boy world, artistically. All the jazz boys are bad boys.

Sarcasm is the protest of the weak.

Less information often leads to more interpretation.

I love an underdog. No, I don't necessarily mean the cartoon. I mean like David, as in Goliath, or the Bears, as in The Bad News Bears.

Rewriting is like scrubbing the basement floor with a toothbrush.

There are a lot of really funny guys who are very natural in what they do: Jonah Hill, Michael Cera, Seth Rogen.