I think the most important part of storytelling is tension. It's the constant tension of suspense that in a sense mirrors life, because nobody knows what's going to happen three hours from now.

Although the paranoiacs make the great leaders, it's the resenters who make their best instruments because the resenters, those men with cancer of the psyche, make the great assassins.

Cheese. The adult form of milk.

The human comedy begins with a vertical smile.

Amateur psychiatric prognosis can be fascinating when there's absolutely nothing else to do.

Writers are too self-centered to be lonely.

Over-eating is the most worthy of sins. It neither breaks up marriages nor causes road accidents.

I'm a man of the marketplace as well as an artist. I'm a pawnbroker of myth.

Made by General Motors, on order from Sears Roebuck.

All living relationships are in process ofchange, of expansion, and must perpetually be building themselves new forms. But there is no singlefixed form to express such a changing relationship.

Taking care of your health and well bring first, is the best way to insure you will be able to care for those you love.

Your mind is a Microcosm of strength and power. There’s all the magic you need in it. When all else fails, search within!

I would never have done what I'd done if I'd considered my father as somebody I wanted to please.

Jihad should be waged in places where there is war. Bombings in places where there is no war is not a good thing.

If you only stand up for speech you approve of, you're a hack. If you only stand up for speech that everyone approves of, you're a coward.

Uri Geller may have psychic powers by means of which he can bend spoons; if so, he appears to be doing it the hard way.

It's kind of rebellious to be yourself.

Sometimes, God gives you physical talent and takes away the brain.

The persistent winner is not discouraged by a problem - he is challenged by it.