It all began with a shoe on the wall. A shoe on the wall shouldn't be there at all.

To be a Christian for ten year and to be no more like Jesus then than at the time of conversion, is a tragedy.

It's always harder to be the one who's left behind than the one who leaves.

It is better to rust out than wear out.

I think we need to change that old saying, "I don't need a building to fall on me." Because two did and we still don't get it. I think we all stick our head in the sand as a deep human impulse.

In order to maintain a friendship, do not avoid confrontation, but rather, embrace it.

The Soviet Union tried for 70 years to plant Marxism with bayonets in Eastern Europe. Today there are more Marxists on the Harvard faculty than there are in Eastern Europe.

I don't believe it mattered to Timothy McVeigh who was president or who his congressional representative was when he blew up the Murrah Building in 1995.

I began to exercise a lot of cinematic muscle with the precepts I had learned in the New York art world. Film was intriguing. I began to think of art as elitist, whereas film was not.

The British have always made terrible parents.

Some kinds of stocks are easier to analyse than others.