Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve.

Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with.

I sometimes suspect that half our difficulties are imaginary and that if we kept quiet about them they would disappear.

Most of us can remember a time when a birthday - especially if it was one's own - brightened the world as if a second sun has risen.

[History is] the story of the magnificent rear-guard action fought during several thousand years by dogma against curiosity.

Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left.

Any of us can achieve virtue, if by virtue we merely mean the avoidance of the vices that do not attract us.

There are some people who want to throw their arms round you simply because it is Christmas; there are other people who want to strangle you simply because it is Christmas.

The telephone is the greatest nuisance among conveniences, the greatest convenience among nuisances.

When the last Puritan has disappeared from the earth, the man of science will take his place as a killjoy, and we shall be given the same old advice but for different reasons.

Most remarks that are worth making are commonplace remarks. The things that makes them worth saying is that we really mean them.

If everyone would've been childlike, not childish, the world would've be a better place.

I don't know why, but his reaction disappoints me.

I demanded two weeks of rehearsal because to me as an actor, that's the most important time.

I've always been making up my own restrictions for myself, from day one, and it's compelling, because it forces me to think. That's always been a driving force for me.

Analytical geometry has never existed. There are only people who do linear geometry badly, by taking coordinates, and they call this analytical geometry. Out with them!

I think that people get experiences, and out of those experiences come meaning and ideas. It's like watching a rose bush grow.

It takes no courage to make war, particularly if you're not going to go and your children are not going to go.

I lost the good stuff on my fastball. I had to come up with something to keep me in the league. The knuckler rescued me then.

When Emily Dickinson writes, “Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul,” she reminds us, as the birds do, of the liberation and pragmatism of belief.

One of the things I think is important about 'Watchmen' is that it have resonance within cinematic pop culture as well as superhero culture.