What better way for a ruling class to claim and hold power than to pose as the defenders of the nation.

Fear is Real not superficial...if ignored will conquer you...if fought...it will be conquered.-Fear of drowning can only be overcome only by learning to swim.

I have this feeling that immigrants unwittingly help to keep peace between nations by being scapegoats for national ills that would otherwise be blamed on neighbours.

When I create a masterpiece I feel alive! When my creation is revered I feel immortal.

It seems stupid to have discovered America only to make it into a copy of another country.

I hear my friends and my mom tell me I'm special, but honestly, I still don't get it.

Biographers, by their very nature, want to know everything about everybody, dead or alive.

There has never been a great film unless it was created in the spirit of the experimental filmmaker.

Lycurgus, Numa, Moses, Jesus Christ, Mohammed, all these great rogues, all these great thought-tyrants, knew how to associate the divinities they fabricated with their own boundless ambition.

I think I do better when things are a little tougher.

In my day, if a guy came to spring training 20 pounds heavier than what he left, he was considered out of shape and was probably in trouble.