The odd thing about people who had many books was how they always wanted more.

Committing your goals to paper increases the likelihood of your achieving them by one thousand percent.

Ambition and thirst for power have a part but greed and greed alone is the reason for a man wanting to swell his ward.

Faking your own death is illegal, yet faking your own life is celebrated

And suddenly, like light in darkness, the real truth broke in upon me; the simple fact of Man, which I had forgotten, which had lain deep buried and out of sight; the idea of community, of unity.

What were we spending so much time doing if not getting to know each other?

I have a pirate fetish-I just always thought eye patches were sexy. If you want to get my attention, wear a pirate outfit.

Disturbers are never popular - nobody ever really loved an alarm clock in action, no matter how grateful he may have been afterwards for its kind services!

I have programmed myself to be at least 105 years old.

It was a tough experience with Alan Horn, who didn't like anything that was R-rated. So you can imagine he hated some of my films.