When photography was invented, people had to make room in their minds for the idea that the dead would always be visible.

When photography was invented, it was thought to be an equivalent to truth. It was truth with a capital T.

Never find fault with the absent.

I would be too selfish if I said everyone should see my movies more than once. To say that would mean I'm just marketing my work!

Thank God for Darwin, eh?

Women do generally manage to love the guys they marry more than they manage to marry the guys they love.

Both parents supported my becoming a world class athlete.

Open the book. (The gilt rubs off the edges of the pages and pollinates the fingertips.)

I feel a big obligation to the audience, almost in a moral sense, to say something useful. If I'm going to spend a year of my life on these things, I want something that I feel that strongly about.

There is no entity in the world that controls our lives more than the Federal Reserve System

If somebody wants to kill people, they don't need a gun to do it.

I think we had a Ben Webster/Gerry Mulligan record... that might have been it. We only had a few records in the house.