Warner Studios official in the era of silent movies: Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?

Reagan is described as "delivering Barry Goldwater's doctrine with John F. Kennedy's technique.

A smile is a smile.

The professional learns to recognize envy-driven criticism and to take it for what it is: the supreme compliment. The critic hates most that which he would have done himself if he had had the guts.

Success affects the number of friends you have infinitely more than how the number of friends you have affects your success.

I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you

I feel really good in the teacher role.

People need something or someone to fasten themselves to in order to reassure themselves that they are real.

A large part of my work has been collaborating with composers; I think we've commissioned about 140 pieces now, a lot of them percussion concertos.

I don't even know which end of a computer one is supposed to gaze into. I've never used a computer.

When George Bush finally leaves the White House, the satire industry will briefly join the rest of the economy in recession. It will certainly be the end of an era.

We are mad, not only individually, but nationally. We check manslaughter and isolated murders; but what of war and the much-vaunted crime of slaughtering whole peoples?