The ten hottest years in the atmospheric record, going back only 160 years, have been in the last eleven years.

Sunshine, lollipops and rainbows, everything that's wonderful, Is sure to come your way

A zebra does not change its spots.

Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.

We know that he has stored secret supplies of biological and chemical weapons throughout his country.

There's a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.

The unfed mind devours itself.

We are the United States of Amnesia, we learn nothing because we remember nothing.

Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they're both just aspirin.

Write something, even if it's just a suicide note.

When people meet me I think they're surprised to find out I'm not always angst-ridden.

We have little importance. Once we've assimilated that, life can have a meaning.

Words are a lens to focus one’s mind.

When you have little children, you want to tell them about joy and happiness and hope. And then comes the time you want to tell them there are tough moments. I admire people who can do that.

What is my identity ?" "Nothing," said the Master. "You mean that I am an emptiness and a void?" said the incredulous disciple. "Nothing that can be labeled." said the Master.

Well being as there's no other place around the place, I reckon this must be the place, I reckon.

I love the work I do.

For certain things, certain audiences, people will laugh. And in other places, there's dead silence. And I enjoy them both. You try to make films where it's never one way - like life.

For me cinema is image, sound, and the faces and bodies and, yes, voices, of my actors, and sometimes the words that they are saying, but not only the words.

I want to be a woman of focus. I don't want to live by default, but by design.

I've wanted to see beyond the Western, mechanical view of the world and see what else might appear when the lens was changed