Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

My work is being destroyed almost as soon as it is printed. One day it is being read; the next day someone's wrapping fish in it.

The public is like a piano. You just have to know what keys to poke.

Success is following the pattern of life one enjoys most.

Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work.

There are certain books in the world which every searcher for truth must know: the Bible, the Critique of Pure Reason, the Origin of Species, and Karl Marx's Capital.

Today's younger generation is no worse than my own. We were just as ignorant and repulsive as they are, but nobody listened to us.

The secret of how to live without resentment or embarrassment in a world in which I was different from everyone else. was to be indifferent to that difference.

Like all New York hotel lady cashiers she had red hair and had been disappointed in her first husband.

Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Any place that anyone can learn something useful from someone with experience is an educational institution.

Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary.

Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed if necessary.

We're dealing with whether we're going to accept the idea of socialism and Marxism and atheism. Or go back to the American way, Judeo-Christian values, which meritocracy is part of it. The idea that content and character and talent are colorblind.

In football, you're hitting, so you might as well hit in practice.

Ann Romney has been front-and-center. She's held a lot of town halls, a lot of campaign rallies, on her own, separate from her husband. And she is dynamite out on the campaign trail.

I don't particularly get nervous about anything.

True courage is cool and calm. The bravest of men have the least of a brutal bullying insolence and in the very time of danger are found the most serene and free.

In a way, perhaps, there's an advantage of being on the edge of something and looking in as the observer, because as the filmmaker, you're the storyteller, and you're pulling out this universal story.

The Inhumans are almost a mythological creation unto themselves. They're royalty, and are always involved in Marvel's cosmic events. But with the explosion of the Terrigen bomb and these new Inhumans coming to light, it brings a new street level aspect to add to the royalty aspect.

The 1984 European Championships were held in France and that was something important. I felt on form then, even though I was practically always injured at all the World Cups. It's a great memory. But in any case, the past is past.

I hate junk food. It depresses me.

I've had a quiet fascination with New Zealand for most of my life.

I have my own studio down in Miami.

I'm still not used to the idea of being the youngest circumnavigator.

I've found that many of the greatest ideas surface in bars because that's where many people cultivate inspiration.

I'm still astounded by some people's reaction to things I consider quite normal.

I wasn't a friendly child. I was reserved and mostly kept to myself. My family tells me they've noticed a sea change in me after I've grown up. But I guess that's natural. Your surroundings, friends, college, etc. do make a lot of difference to your personality.

I've always enjoyed doing dishes. Maybe it was the fashionable yellow gloves that I loved so much. It's weird, I know, but I find cleaning cathartic.

We can constitutionally extirpate slavery at this time.

If I went out in killer heels and full makeup, blow dry, the whole thing - anyone dressed up like that could be intimidating to men and women, really. It's so, look at me. Do you know what I mean? But I love women.

People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.

Who are enemies? Those who oppose each others will.

If I had a penny for every time I thought of you, I’d only have one, because you never left my mind.

You should never get away from where the real foundation of Formula One has been, which is Europe. Of course, there is nothing wrong with the expansion to countries like Asia, China, Malaysia.

When actors get pigeonholed, that's their own doing to a large degree. Because if you do something that people like, obviously they're going to ask you to do it again. It's up to you to say no. If you're that insecure about working, you'll probably do what you're known to do.

As a matter of record, New York City spends a higher portion of its budget on instruction and associated costs within the schools themselves than any of the other 100 largest districts in the nation.