Experts say that children are not born criminals, nor pampered parasites. They are made that way by the environment in which they live.

J. Edgar Hoover: When morals decline and good men do nothing, evil flourishes. A society unwilling to learn from past is doomed. We must never forget our history.

There will never be another Black Messiah unless we create him

The most effective weapon against crime is cooperation... The efforts of all law enforcement agencies with the support and understanding of the American people.

The individual is handicapped by coming face-to-face with a conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists.

What's important at this time is to re-clarify the difference between hero and villain.

No amount of law enforcement can solve a problem that goes back to the family.

There is but one way to eliminate juvenile delinquency - that is by providing each child in America with competent parents.

A child who has been taught to respect the laws of God will have little difficulty respecting the laws of men.

The American mind simply has not come to a realization of the evil which has been introduced into our midst.

The cure for crime is not the electric chair, but the high chair.

The upside to grief is it takes away your appetite. When people say you look good they really mean it. Nature's thoughtful that way.

Artists need to express.

What can be the dharma at one point in your life can totally reverse itself, and suddenly you might be doing something the opposite or something very new, something you never considered.

I wanted something where I could explore comics and music at the same time.

A home is very, very important to me. But I do change things around a lot.

I've done lots of improv things but not a whole movie.

I know [Arthur Koestler] fought in the Spanish Civil War. He was in prison, I think, in Spain and in Russia. He came to the United States; that's when I saw him in the mid-1940s.

I think I have learned to really get out of the mathematical side of myself that looks at story and story structure and go with, "Okay, well, what would people do in real life?"

I will take as a given that, for most people, somewhere between six and seven billion of them, the perfect job is the one that takes the least time.

Sometimes the crowd is the madness - at others it's the absence of the crowd that is.