He works fast. He throws a lot of strikes. That's what an infielder loves. It gets you into the game.

An efficiency-regime cannot be run without a few heroes stuck about it to carry off the dullness - much as plums have to be put into a bad pudding to make it palatable.

You want to make sure this particular car is going to please the customer and then you're going to be rewarded with something that is going to please the shareholder.

We have lived with violence far too long.

The fly sat upon the axel-tree of the chariot-wheel and said, 'What a dust do I raise!'

I write for myself, and I write for my friends and people who I have a connection with. I try to give some dignity to peoples' lifestyles that tend to be ignored.

I can still recall the thrill of shooting my first film.

I know this will come as a shock to you, Mr. Goldwyn, but in all history, which has held billions and billions of human beings, not a single one ever had a happy ending.

I try to stay in the positive. In the now.

I know so little about any history. How little do I know even about the history of myself.

Avoid letting temper block progress-keep cool.