The only way to ensure that you and those you agree with have the right to speak is to support the right to speak of those you despise or do not like - the people with whom you do not agree.

The best way to create a better future is to do your best at this very moment.

The key to humor is often self-loathing or sarcasm. In a sense, that's how self-loathing is made palatable.

The flower of youth never appears more beautiful than when it bends toward the sun of righteousness.

I have to pinch myself sometimes. It's unbelievable, but it's not. Because I know that this would not be happening if it hadn't been for Dr. Martin Luther King.

I have no great message to the world.

I've almost been hit by a lot of things in New York City. I am pretty sure I have almost been hit by a bike messenger before.

Very rarely do actors, even with features, get to live with a part for that long and really dig into it.

The reluctant obedience of distant provinces generally costs more than it - The Territory is worth. Empires which branch out widely are often more flourishing for a little timely pruning.

The original Return of the Living Dead, I was attached to direct it, and I wrote the story. Production was delayed. In the meantime I went to London to do Lifeforce.

Kids go where there is excitement. They stay where there is love.