An animal can learn to fight, but to sing beautiful things and make people believe them.

Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen. It is not enough to do your own job. There's no particular gift in that. Democracy isn't a gift. It's a responsibility.

You show me a politician with his heels ten feet in the air, and by Judas priest, Ill show you an honest politician.

The only kind of love worth having is the kind that goes on living and laughing and fighting and loving.

When one man says, “No, I won’t,” Rome begins to fear.

Democracy isn't a gift. It's a responsibility.

A man doesn't say I will starve myself to death to keep from starving, or that he'd spend all of his money to save money. Why should he be willing to die for the privilege of living?

Bankers, nepotists, contracts and talkies: on four fingers one may count the leeches which have sucked a young and vigorous industry into paresis.

The only interesting thing that can happen in a Swiss bedroom is suffocation by feather mattress.

There are plenty of laws to protect guys' money even in war time but there's nothing on the books says a man's life's his own.

If I were dead and buried And I heard your voice, Beneath the sod My heart of dust Would still rejoice.

She stopped and leant her elbows against the parapet of the embankment. He did likewise. There is at times a magic in identity of position

Don't let success go to your heads and don't let failure into your hearts.

You can have anything you want, if you want it badly enough.

I want to show that the dividing lines between sanity and mental illness have been drawn in the wrong place.

The Greeks, who knew everything, understood that without the orgy there is no middle ground between bedlam and Toronto ... we need the healing grace of the orgy in this country.

Major labels didn't start showing up really until they smelled money, and that's all they're ever going to be attracted to is money-that's the business they're in- making money.

I like making comics and animation because it takes such a long time. I'm not a runner of the 100 meter. I like marathons. The longer it takes, the better I feel.

The dirty truth is that many people find fascism to be not particularly horrible.

When I was a fireman I was in a lot of burning buildings. It was a great job, the only job I ever had that compares with the thrill of acting.

If there's anything I'm not pompous about, it's myself or my work. But I seem to be able to play it.