The reality of what we really are is often times found in the small snips, way down at the bottom of things.

I've met them down in the Cost and Accounting Department, clean-shaven and in white collars. They can't see a damn thing ridiculous about themselves... only about you.

In God we trust; all others pay cash.

Can you imagine 4,000 years passing, and you're not even a memory? Think about it, friends. It's not just a possibility. It is a certainty.

I had woven a tapestry of obscenity that as far as I know is still hanging in space over Lake Michigan.

The hand of fate had dipped into the ragbag of humanity.

A man today never feels so alive as when he is hurtling from one point to another on the azimuth.

Some men are Baptists, others Catholics; my father was an Oldsmobile man.

There are fewer things more thrilling in life than lumpy letters. That rattle.

Randy lay there like a slug. It was his only defense.

Manhattan cabs are born old.

The present is the necessary product of all the past the necessary cause of all the future.

One must realise his Self in order to open the store of unalloyed happiness.

We all have a hungry heart, and one of the things we hunger for is happiness. So as much as I possibly could, I stayed where I was happy.

I make movies that audiences like, that I'd want to see. That's all.

It is necessary that we stop, once for all, this ignorant meddling with other people's business. Each individual must be left free to follow his own path.

There have been men before now who got so interested in proving the existence of God that they came to care nothing for God Himself.

That's the tragedy of the rich: They don't need anything.

Every high civilization decays by forgetting obvious things.

The album for Fiddler really took off. I think it was a combination of John Williams and the score. It was a very classy big album.

I can sell anything to anyone. That is actually my superpower. I am really good at negotiating and persuading.