God has a hard-on for a Marine because we kill everything we see. He plays His game, we play ours.

Never say no to an idea - you never know how that idea will ignite another idea.

However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.

The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good.

I do not always know what I want, but I do know what I don't want.

You're an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.

A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.

Be suspicious of people who have, or crave, power. Never, ever go near power. Don't become friends with anyone who has real power. It's dangerous.

The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.

When the tough get going, the going gets easier.

I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself and not by borrowing.

Anger is the ego's way of cloaking fear to make what is frail seem formidable.

My life now could not be better.

according to the old joke, married people are often like little boys bathing, who cry with chattering teeth to the boys on the shore, 'Do come in, it's so warm' - it is not always warm.

Beware how you give your heart.

No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated. Any nation that is progressive is led by people who have had the privilege of studying.

America is not the world.

I hate politics. What they say and what they do is completely different.

The old horse is coming back in a high lope. Thousands of people are riding a horse today that five years ago couldn't sit in a Ford with all the doors locked.