To denigrate the union movement in this way is to denigrate the right and the ability of people who are not rich to organize and to accomplish things together.

How can anybody hate nurses? Nobody hates nurses. The only time you hate a nurse is when they're giving you an enema.

That's all gone, now, the old, Hollywood.

You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.

Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius.

Lenin said that people vote with their feet. Well, that's what's happening. They either go, or they don't go. It's all politics. It's all demographics.

I'm old, I'm young, I'm intelligent, I'm stupid. My tide goes in and out.

I don't think there's anything to be admired in lying, cheating or philandering. But there might be something to be admired in not burning people at the stake because they have those weaknesses.

There are some people whom you have in life who have the capacity for real, passionate commitment to something, and sometimes you may be passionately committed to the same thing.

Government is not show business.

And the success of the union movement, historically, has always been to benefit all working men and women - not just people who belong to the union.

Words are music to the ears, alone or together, with or without melody.

Up to this day, there has been no proof of the existence of any intelligence other than the human.

Nobody is ever just a straight up protagonist or antagonist - everybody's morally ambiguous.

I used to feel so shy speaking to girls. It was even worse when they were around their crew because they would diss me.

I have been inundated with offers to move into a career in television or film, and these, too, are tempting.

There is, in fact, nothing about religious opinions that entitles them to any more respect than other opinions get. On the contrary, they tend to be noticeably silly.

I knew right then and there nothing was ever going to change. It wouldn't matter if I was tall or short or fat or thin or absent every day. I was a loser from birth.

If (the antiproton) had not been discovered, the foundations of physics really would have crumbled.

Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just by virtue of being photographed, touched with pathos.

There is no greater tyranny than that of the dead over the living.