I worry a lot about taking care of my dependents, all those perfectly ordinary middle-class preoccupations.

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.

Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.

Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.

Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate.

My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.

The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it.

If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.

If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.

Personally, I don't like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she'll fool her husband, I figure she'll fool me.

I like to think about machines and technology in relation to landscape and architecture.

So long as people don't know how to eat they will not have good cooks.

The human being is born with an incurable capacity for making the best of things.

Some gods may cross your path, but why should gods be beautiful? They could also be frightening.

She laughed, and the desert sang.

Let no man break the laws of the land, for he that keepeth the laws of God hath no need to break the laws of the land.

I feel the need to work with my wife, Lena Olin, again.

The US reasserted control over Nicaragua in 1990. Since then, the country has experienced a steep decline. It's now the second poorest country in the hemisphere.

You are the world's greatest, when you say you are.

A floor length backless black sequined dress would be my dream dress. As for my dream date - that would have to be a young Marlon Brando!