The spirit of graft and of lawlessness is the American spirit.

In all cities, the better classes - the business men - are the sources of corruption, but they are so rarely pursued and caught that we do not fully realize whence the trouble comes.

Keep your baby eyes (which are the eyes of genius) on what we don't know

The misgovernment of the American people is misgovernment by the American people.

Power is what men seek, and any group that gets it will abuse it. It is the same story.

Morality is only moral when it is voluntary.

You ask men in office to be honest; I ask them to serve the public.

The only thing worth having in an earthly existence is a sense of humor.

I have seen the future, and it works.

First in violence, deepest in dirt, lawless, unlovely, ill-smelling, irreverent, new; an overgrown gawk of a - village, the "tough" among cities, a spectacle for the nation.

It is privilege that causes evil in the world, not wickedness, and not men.

Please write an ending where the Martians are defeated. Don't take away your readers' hope.

Why ever long for something from the past when the future brings things that are so much better?

Oliver knocked on the door, trying to keep his fear in check. Dominic didn't answer. Oliver looked around the porch for a hidden key, frantically searching under the welcome mat, but to no avail.

The mind is not a hermit's cell, but a place of hospitality and intercourse.

We must send a message that visa expiration dates will be strongly enforced.

There are only a few images that are not forced to provide meaning, or have to go through the filter of a specific idea.

It's said that if two documentary filmmakers meet they talk about the world, if two fiction filmmakers meet they talk about the million that they don't have to make their film.

My hair had been dyed blonde for Dredd. After Dredd, I was really fried because of the blonde hair dye, and so I cut it into a bob with bangs and that's how it was during Being Flynn.

I don't want to think that the stories are finite; I want to feel that they can go on forever.

I used to work at a health food store. I got fired for drinking straight Bosco on the job.