Worth seeing? Yes; but not worth going to see.

Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.

It is my belief that nearly any invented quotation, played with confidence, stands a good chance to deceive.

Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.

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

No one’s policing their own minds more than an author. You spend a lot of time in your own head analysing what you think about things, and a philosophy comes.

Maybe stories are just data with a soul.

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

The racing is quite boring, sometimes. It’s hard to see how it pulls in fans.

When you think about it, Adolf Hitler was the first pop star.

I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.

So foul and fair a day I have not seen.

We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that.

See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise, you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that.

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.

Humor is the most engaging cowardice.

I’m not a macroeconomics person.

I can express all my views on the slavery question by quotations from Henry Clay.

Politically there were failures. And also on the personal level, there were tremendous failures.

If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.

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

The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation from their purposes.

I thought Star Wars was too wacky for the general public.

Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.

There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.

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

A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation.

I could hardly sit through ‚Frozen.‘ There was an attempt to craft a moral message and to build the story around that, instead of building the story and letting the moral message emerge. It was the subjugation of art to propaganda, in my estimation.

Froth at the top, dregs at bottom, but the middle excellent.

Next to the young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish.

Dissents speak to a future age.

His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.

Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Cobb is a prick. But he sure can hit. God Almighty, that man can hit.

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

Study men, not historians.

The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.

Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.

I don’t usually admire Sarah Palin, but when she was making fun of this ‚hopey changey stuff,‘ she was right: there was nothing there.

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’m not an expert on the arms race.

Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.

In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side.

Criticism is prejudice made plausible.

It is always good men who do the most harm in the world.

The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.

If you go to a bad movie, it’s two hours. If you’re in a bad movie, it’s two years.

‚Kiss Land‘ is like a horror movie.

We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end.

Stupidity is a talent for misconception.

In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.

Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.

The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.

As abhorrent as some of this content can be, I do think that it gets down to this principle of giving people a voice.

How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!

When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.

Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.

Now is the winter of our discontent.