The public be damned! (on whether the public should be consulted about luxury trains Aug 1918

The railroads are not run for the benefit of the dear public. That cry is nonsense. They are built for men who invest their money and expect to get a fair percentage of the same.

I have had no real gratification or enjoyment of any sort more than my neighbour on the next block who is worth only half a million.

The public be damned. I am working for my stockholders.

Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.

Impression without expression causes depression. Study without service leads to spiritual stagnation.

For any new technology there is always controversy and there always some fear associated with it. I think that's just the price of being first sometimes.

Everybody should pay some tax, just as everybody should vote.

I would love to date a chef. I'd probably get really fat, but I don't care.

To compel the nation with challenge the traditional American doctrine of freedom of the seas, every man and every ship in the navy is solemnly pledged.

The ultimate aim of psychoanalysis is to attribute art to mental weakness, and then to trace the weakness back to the point where, according to analytic dogma, it originated namely, the lavatory.

Well, I think Perl should run faster than C.

I really enjoy working with younger actors. I just feel like we're all peers together.

We exhaust ourselves more from the tension and the consequences of internal disharmony than from hard, unremitting work.