I'm a horrible public speaker.

There's nothing quite as good as folding up into a book and shutting the world outside.If I pick the right one I can be beautiful, or fall in love, or live happily ever after. Maybe even all three.

Kinsey would identify himself with Galileo in moments of feelings of persecution.

It is interesting to be here and to see that for certain actors they have to live in a way that you think of nobody living anymore except for in small towns. They have such elaborate double lives.

We knew that there was a certain kind of interest in Whale among a genre crowd.

It's an odd thing to go to New York to shoot a movie that is set in Indiana.

I wanted to make connections between Whale's past and present.

But the imposition of morality onto science, - where it does not belong - has become rampant in recent years.

I think that finding a way into somebody's life that's sort of off from a side angle can tell you more about that person than a greatest hits approach.

Our relationships, relationships between adults, how all those pieces fit together - that's the most complicated thing we all face.

Kinsey thought that Freud in his own way was as dangerous as the Catholic Church.

Have regard for your name since it will remain for you longer than a great store of gold.

Oh, honey, I'm from Oklahoma! This is who I am - middle-class all the way!

I am not the easiest guy to live with. It is probably the lack of stability in my life.

Principle is OK up to a certain point, but principle doesn't do any good if you lose.

All work and no play is not good for the soul

Jews talk a lot about God. But actually their god, just like Marx said, is money. Cash!

There are only two races (and they are not distinguished by color): those who are free and those who are not.

I would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married.

The saddest object in civilization, and to my mind the greatest confession of its failure, is the man who can work, who wants work, and who is not allowed to work.

Everybody I know is a joke writer.