True genius can be identified by the fact that its expression changes the world into something it has never been before.

The problem with the gene pool is that there's no lifeguard.

I have memories - but only a fool stores his past in the future.

Of course life is bizarre, the more bizarre it gets, the more interesting it is. The only way to approach it is to make yourself some popcorn and enjoy the show.

Life is hard. Then you die. Then they throw dirt in your face. Then the worms eat you. Be grateful it happens in that order.

Understanding the laws of nature does not mean that we are immune to their operations.

The jingling of a fat purse always commands the world.

Adolescence is that time in your life when you discover your ability to be depressed.

You will find it easiest to ride the avalanche in the direction it already travels.

The human race never solves any of its problems, it only outlives them.

Study what you love, and youll never have to work a day in your life. Itll be one great adventure.

Our dead become the photographs and words we hang on the walls, but they also hang on the walls of our hearts, the windows of our lips, and the sobs in our voices.

Sin has sprung from a royal though evil stock, and if it be in the heart, it will struggle for the throne.

My films seem to be better understood and better received by the monthly publications. On television the first reactions are usually unfavorable.

Thou shalt not steal. I mean defensively. On offense, indeed thou shall steal and thou must.

A pedestrian ought to be legally allowed to toss at least one hand grenade at a motorist every day.

He's been on vacation for a year and month. Captain Kirk never left the helm when the Enterprise was under attack.

The wisest man preaches no doctrines; he has no scheme; he sees no rafter, not even a cobweb, against the heavens. It is clear sky.

If you get a show named after you, and then play another character, that's fine. But if you do a show that's an ensemble show like... MASH, then you're in trouble.

Talent emerges over the course of a lifetime of reciprocal interactions between the developing brain and a stimulating environment.

Convention and restriction release inhibition and provoke the imagination.