The city is a plague… and I am the penicillin.

As for thy thirst after books, away with it with all speed.

Happiness is the gap between loving and longing.

A rich, robust, well-resourced public education is one of the best routes out of poverty and a pathway to prosperity.

Change is one of my favourite words.

Maybe when I stop making movies, I'll understand my work better.

If you look at the US economy over the last 15-20 years wages have been stagnating or even declining.

I don't wear small shoes, or tight pants that squash your balls.

If we are bound to improve, we need not trouble to improve. The pure doctrine of progress is the best of all reasons for not being a progressive.

The Yankees have better starting pitchers than Arizona. Arizona just has two... the Yanks have four.

Waste of time is the most extravagant and costly of all expenses.