Why spend 18 hours watching someone else's war, when you know how it comes out? We win, and then have to buy all their cars.

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.

Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.

Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.

Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate.

My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.

The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it.

If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.

If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.

Personally, I don't like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she'll fool her husband, I figure she'll fool me.

I feel the reason we are all here, our purpose of being, is to help others find their little piece of happiness and heaven right here on earth...

(Marlowe's) Faustus stubbornly reverts to his atheistic beliefs and continues his elementary pagan re-education ~ the inferno to him is a 'place' invented by men.

Authors don't have wings. We must climb the mountain, not try to fly to its top.

I grew up in a religious environment, and I'm proud of it.

God will pardon me. It is His trade.

Adoption is an answer to a tragedy that has already happened, but may it never be the impetus for one that hasn’t.

Imagination is the source of all human achievement.

A man's first duty is to his own conscience and honor; the party and country come second to that, and never first.

The problem isn't a Congress that won't cut spending or a president who won't raise taxes. The problem is an American public with a bottomless sense of entitlement to federal money.

Being surrounded by artistic and musical beauty soothes the soul, bringing both quiet calm and creative inspiration. . . .