There are some young women movie stars who are doing it everywhere, smoking in every movie, sometimes even with placements with a pack of cigarettes.

I have always been fascinated by the corruption of power.

I have only one loyalty - to my writing. I never wanted to be the head of a studio or a producer.

That's sort of what I felt... I miss drinking, I thought bars were truly holy places.

Cigarettes are not a part of human behaviour, they are a habit.

The studios have been taken over by marketing people and accountants.

Let's make Joe Lieberman accountable for his rhetoric. Not a penny more until he 'clarifies' his position to the satisfaction of our creative freedom.

Politics has become entertainment.

I worry that we are approaching a time when that which is shocking is squeezed out by the Stalinism of political correctness.

My father could have been deported because on his immigration application he said that he was a printer, obviously because he didn't want them to be checking his writings.

I have my own religious bond with the God in my own head.

One can't fight with oneself, for this battle has only one loser.

Sometimes I felt so alone that I wish there were a bigger, longer word for alone. I tried to tell Grandma about this feeling, about my suspicion that life was nicking away pieces of me.

Honor doesn’t revise according to company just as integrity doesn’t diminish due to circumstance.

There's a difference between immaturity and not being ready, and there's a certain maturity in admitting that you're not ready.

Karma means that all actions have consequences. Grace means that in a moment of atonement -taking responsibility, making amends, asking for forgiveness - all karma is burned.

If someone like Musalia [Mudavadi ] ruled Kenya, he would not be able to effect the radical changes I talk about.

Men throw huge shadows on the lawn, don't they? Then, all their lives, they try to run to fit the shadows. But the shadows are always longer.

Live life, see it through. Carry on, it's all you can do.

There have been three great inventions since the beginning of time: fire, the wheel, and central banking.

Laziness is the one common deficiency in mankind that blocks the establishment of a perfect world in which everyone leads a happy life.