Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.

Reading a novel, War and Peace for example, is no Catnap. Because a novel is so long, reading one is like being married forever to somebody nobody knows or cares about.

If history is written by the victorious, what if the victors lied?

Every single moment is your life, so enjoy the moment to enjoy your life fully.

Our arms must be mighty ... ready for instant action, so that no potential aggressor may be tempted to risk his own destruction

For this world that men have made, none of us is bad enough. For the world that made us, none is good enough.

The precise moment at which a great belief is doomed is easily recognisable; it is the moment when its value begins to be called in question.

When men hire themselves out to shoot other men to order, asking nothing about the justice of their cause, I don't care if they are shot themselves.

The films that influenced me were so disparate that there's almost no pattern.

Comedy wasn't something I chose - it chose me.

I just think make hay while the sun shines really when you're an actor. When the opportunities present themselves you just better take them, otherwise you just don't know.

Generally, I'm a pretty mellow guy.