You know very well that unless you're a scientist, it's much more important for a theory to be shapely, than for it to be true.

I think there's something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It's humiliating if you fail and commonplace if you succeed.

To seduce a woman famous for strict morals, religious fervor and the happiness of her marriage: what could possibly be more prestigious?

Masturbation is the thinking man's television.

If I had to give a definition of capitalism I would say: the process whereby American girls turn into American women.

I have always thought of sophistication as rather a feeble substitute for decadence.

I like L.A., but I think whats changed is that the kinds of films I do, the mid-range dramatic film, has become an endangered species.

You see, I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth.

There is a sort of theory that you should adapt bad books because they always make more successful films.

I'm ashamed to say the first play I saw at the Royal Court was mine.

My problem is I'm a man of no convictions - at least, I think I am.

When someone finds his or her mind is not free or in mental bondage, such a person might as well not be free physically.

This world is as loving as much as you love this world.

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.

The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.

Modern programs must handle Unicode —Python has excellent support for Unicode, and will keep getting better.

The White House is the finest prison in the world.

The tulip's petals shine in dew, All beautiful, but none alike.

In the application of the method of non-violence, one must believe in the possibility of every person, however depraved, being reformed under humane and skilled treatment.

No computer has ever been designed that is ever aware of what it's doing; but most of the time, we aren't either.

Much wisdom often goes with fewer words.