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.‘

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and fries.

A lot of people have it a lot worse than you do.

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

In that film, the man and the part met. As far as I’m concerned, that part is Greg’s for life. I’ve had many, many offers to turn it into musicals, into TV or stage plays, but I’ve always refused.

Jesus is ideal and wonderful, but you Christians – you are not like him.

I like Italian movies. I was frequently there in the ’60s, in Rome and the vicinity. It was a great period in life. I was very influenced by their stuff.

Today, all physicists know from studying Einstein and Bohr that sometimes an idea which looks completely paradoxical at first, if analyzed to completion in all detail and in experimental situations, may, in fact, not be paradoxical.

The economy’s always been the engine for our national security.

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

Clothes if they are not well cut, you can kill nobody. A building poorly built can kill people. It’s a much more difficult work. I would not compare myself with that.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.

To some extent I liken slavery to death.

There’s no doubt that inequality destabilizes societies. I think the social science evidence on that front is crystal clear.

Trying to be fascinating is an asinine position to be in.

Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing.

Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen.

The ‚free-floating intellectual‘ may occupy himself with problems because of their inherent interest and importance, perhaps to little effect.

When women kiss it always reminds one of prize fighters shaking hands.

Apple’s market share is bigger than BMW’s or Mercedes’s or Porsche’s in the automotive market. What’s wrong with being BMW or Mercedes?

In praise there is more obtrusiveness than in blame.

There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.

You’d have a hard time finding anything better than Barcelona for food, as far as being a hub. Given a choice between Barcelona and San Sebastian to die in, I’d probably want to die in San Sebastian.

Sure, women sportswriters look when they’re in the clubhouse. Read their stories. How else do you explain a capital letter in the middle of a word?

Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.

I don’t watch television and I rarely go to the cinema, but I recently watched ‚The King’s Speech‘ on a flight. It was so beautiful and so simple.

The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.

Who is richer? The man who is seen, but cannot see? Or the man who is not being seen, but can see?

The concept of Kimye has more cultural significance than what Page Six could write.

History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.

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

We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first, rock ‚n‘ roll or Christianity.

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

Look at situations from all angles, and you will become more open.

The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.

‚Rocky‘ and ‚Rocky III‘ were the best.

It is far more difficult to murder a phantom than a reality.

I’ve analyzed the best I can… and I have not found an impeachable offense, and therefore resignation is not an acceptable course.

In doubtful cases the more liberal interpretation must always be preferred.

Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us.

This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.

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.

If the experiments which I urge be defective, it cannot be difficult to show the defects; but if valid, then by proving the theory, they must render all objections invalid.

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

It’s clearly a budget. It’s got a lot of numbers in it.

There’s no difference between movies and television. None at all. Except in a lot of cases, television’s much better than movies.

There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less excitement than the votaries of pleasure in theirs.

Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.

It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.

David Icke reminded me of Malcolm X.

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

‚I am‘ is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that ‚I do‘ is the longest sentence?

For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.

I guess every single word I’ve ever said is going to be dissected now.

I don’t think there’s anything unique about human intelligence.

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

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

I have kind of a funny relationship with movies. I don’t have to see the whole movie to get an impression of it or to let it have an influence on me.