The right-wing of the Republican party isn't so much a political agenda as a plea for help.

Freedom of speech doesn't protect speech you like; it protects speech you don't like.

No one understands that the First Amendment is only important if you are going to offend somebody. If you're not going to offend somebody, you don't need protection of the First Amendment.

If Kim Jong Un and his henchmen were upset before, wait till they see the movie we're going to make.

Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper.

You have to be able to tolerate what you don't necessarily like so you can be free.

There's nothing that will change someone's moral outlook quicker than cash in large sums.

And a democracy can't exist without free speech and the right to assemble. And that's what Americans tend to forget. And they're born into a culture where they take all of their freedoms for granted.

The two most misused words in the entire English vocabulary are love and friendship. A true friend would die for you, so when you start trying to count them on one hand, you don't need any fingers.

The only question to ask yourself is, how much are you willing to sacrifice to achieve this success?

You can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for dinner.

A woman's weapon is her tongue.

Teach me how to fly, my beautiful butterfly.

Love is a joint experience between two persons -- but the fact that it is a joint experience does not mean that it is a similar experience to the two people involved.

I've been accused of being a minimalist writer. I don't like a lot of verbiage in there.

That's what life is all about: Let's have a party. Let's have it tonight.

Teaching literature is impossible; that is why it is difficult.

Grace tried is better than grace, and more than grace; it is glory in its infancy

Jealous punks can't stop my dunks.

What I wanted to do [in Allied] was get two characters who fall in love for real, across the barricade, and then it transcends the war.

Occasionally if I look back at something I've written I'll find one of those that I don't understand, but that's a bad thing - the unconscious has dealt me a bad hand.