The violence in the world comes about because we human beings are forever creating barriers between men who are like us and men who are not like us.

Men do not have to cook their food; they do so for symbolic reasons to show they are men and not beasts.

Far from being the basis of the good society, the family, with its narrow privacy and tawdry secrets, is the source of all our discontents.

Truth is a totality, the sum of many overlapping partial images. History, on the other hand, sacrifices totality in the interest of continuity.

Discovery's friend is creativity

Other countries haves passed us by. They're outworking us. They're outcompeting us. We have got to wake up and we have got to start moving.

Even in a city like Barcelona, there are still some people in the city who are angry because that waterfront area is a big tourist destination, and all the rents went up, and they had to move.

Language is so different from life. How am I supposed to fit the one into the other? How can I bring them together?

God created whiskey to keep the Irish from taking over the world.

Sure every driver has his value and you want to be respected... but again money is not something that drives me.

I've never done an improvised movie as a fictitious character. I think that's the challenge.

Superstition is not, as has been defined, an excess of religious feeling, but a misdirection of it, an exhausting of it on vanities of man's devising.

The only failure is not trying.

I think that people who get to a certain position, and then try to ferociously defend it or build on it, it's kind of a dead-end street. You see people becoming miserable that way.