We used to have more references to things that we pulled out because they almost felt like they were trying too hard to allude to something.

There isn't any way for the people of Nicaragua to find out what's going on in Nicaragua.

I consider myself a bassist first.

Like all forms of collective security, multilateral sanctions require a unanimity rarely achieved in international politics.

We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity.

If you are in a bad relationship with anyone else, it is because you are in a bad relationship with yourself.

It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable.

I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up happening.

Mystery is more important than knowledge.

The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves.

It's more important you learn what to make movies about than how to make movies

It is a mark of genius not to astonish but to be astonished.

Much of television has been homogenized in the desire to avoid annoying or upsetting people.

There is no more foul or relentless enemy of man in the occult world than this dead-alive creature spewed up from the grave.

I made 'Rio Bravo' with John Wayne. It worked out pretty well and we both liked it, so a few years later we decided to make it again. Worked out pretty good that time, too.

It seems that the inevitable fate of man is never attain complete freedom: princes everywhere tend to despotism and the people to servitude.

Educators are aware that they can reach the youth only by making use of gang spirit and guiding it, not by working against it.

No more religion anymore. No more who's a Moslem and who's a Protestant.

Great men in teaching weak men to reflect have set them on the road to error.

As a son of a man who pretended to be one thing for 33 years of my life and then was another thing, the questions of 'what is real' and 'what is not real' are very blurrily vivid to me.

If you're not frustrated that you're not playing football then you shouldn't be playing football