As a Western, ‚The Magnificent Seven‘ was a pretty good film. I don’t think it was as interesting or as multi-faceted as ‚Seven Samurai.‘

The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.

President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people.

We should not look at terrorism from the nameplates – which group they belong to, what is their geographical location, who are the victims. These individual groups or names will keep changing. Today you are looking at the Taliban or ISIS; tomorrow you might be looking at another name.

I think the word rich is all relative.

Pakistan will never be able to match the Indian militarily, and the effort to do so is taking an immense toll on the society.

There are two bowlers who I think are very tough to play against – Dale Steyn and Morne Morkel.

Unlike many of its European neighbors, Britain shares many of America’s financial traits.

Those movies sure got me into a rut.

Every philosophical problem, when it is subjected to the necessary analysis and justification, is found either to be not really philosophical at all, or else to be, in the sense in which we are using the word, logical.

I seem to smell the stench of appeasement in the air.

That the divided but contiguous particles of bodies may be separated from one another is a matter of observation; and, in the particles that remain undivided, our minds are able to distinguish yet lesser parts, as is mathematically demonstrated.

If all the economists were laid end to end, they’d never reach a conclusion.

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.

The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.

If you’re in business or politics, you need to have an intense understanding of what’s going on around you.

If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia.

In the past there were people who were not rich but contented with their living style, laughing and happy all day. But when the new rich people appear, people look at them and ask, ‚why don’t I have a life like that too, a beautiful house, car and garden,‘ and they abandon their values.

You’re beautiful, like a May fly.

There are as many opinions as there are experts.

This administration is going to be cussed and discussed for years to come.

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

During most of my freelancing, I made what I would have made in charge of the cafeteria at a pretty good junior-high school.

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.

Well, when you come down to it, I don’t see that a reporter could do much to a president, do you?

The story as told in The Odyssey doesn’t hold water. There are too many inconsistencies.

Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?

Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.

It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.

The Old Testament God is a person with body parts and passions. The Church of England God has neither body, parts nor passions, and is therefore not a person.

There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.

I wouldn’t put myself forward to do a film like ‚Changeling‘ if I thought I couldn’t pull people into a story because of all the other ways people see me.

There is no gambling like politics.

Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

Truth is weirder than any fiction I’ve seen.

A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.

He does it with better grace, but I do it more natural.

Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.

I am a fan of the ‚Rocky‘ films, and ‚Rocky 4‘ is my favourite. I also like ‚The Warriors.‘

If you had a million Shakespeares, could they write like a monkey?

The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don’t have to waste your time voting.

The behavior of the crowd at Churchill Downs is like 100,000 vicious Hyenas going berserk all at once in a space about the size of a 777 jet or the White House lawn.

States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.

It’s a nice reader, but there’s nothing on the iPad I look at and say, ‚Oh, I wish Microsoft had done it.‘

What we achieved was a nuclear pause, not a nuclear halt.

All genuinely intellectual work is humorous.

It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.

Analysis is like a lobotomy. Who wants to have all their edges shaved off?

I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

Colleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges.

To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.

So foul and fair a day I have not seen.

I’m not a macroeconomics person.

It amazes me sometimes that even intelligent people will analyze a situation or make a judgement after only recognizing the standard or traditional structure of a piece.

I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition.

None of my kids want to be actors. They are actually very interested in being musicians. I think they like the process of film from the outside. Mad is interested in editing. Pax loves music and deejaying.

The U.S. increasingly has taken on the characteristics of what we describe as ‚failed states.‘

Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.