It's hard for a fellow to keep a chip on his shoulder if you allow him to take a bow.

Never invest in anything that eats or needs painting.

It's hard for a fellow to keep a chip on his shoulder if you allow him to take a bow.

Venice, the most touristy place in the world, is still just completely magic to me.

You either ignore the comic book and make a great movie or you stay very close to the comic book.

I was born in 1953, so that's the Eisenhower administration.

We want to take the energy surrounding the Sandy Hook anniversary that might otherwise be consumed by grief or anger - or this week in San Bernardino by fear - and channel some of that to honor our common humanity and love each other.

When one studies the properties of atoms, one found that the reality is far stranger than anybody would have invented in the form of fiction. Particles really do have the possibility of, in some sense, being in more than one place at one time.

I fear we might be losing the basic human facility to be alone - and with that you throw out independent decision-making, what to trust, what not to trust; key stuff - a perilous loss.

I lived in New York for a long time. Right after college I went there. So I got my first cell phone in New York. Back when you would flip the phone up. Way back when.

Be more than you seem to be.

You only think of the best comeback when you leave.

As the knight of the quill never ventured into the fight, and only snuffed the battle afar, he knew nothing accurately of battles, but managed to pick up a few real or supposed incidents from the wounded and from stragglers.

She's a good girl, loves her mama / Loves Jesus and America too / She's a good girl, who's crazy 'bout Elvis / Loves horses and her boyfriend too

Humans aren't as good as we should be in our capacity to empathize with feelings and thoughts of others, be they humans or other animals on Earth.

Not that I have any interest in saying goodbye to Rocky. I absolutely adore being involved and a part of something that is really a phenomenon.

It is Leistikow's lasting achievement - and will always remain so - that he found a style that can express the melancholy charm of the surroundings of Berlin. We see the Grunewald lakes and those on the upper Spree through his eyes; he has taught us to see their beauty.

It's funny when someone says to you 'you're hot' and all that, because I don't think of it in that way.

I can't believe there is a poet who hasn't eagerly put down a word one day, only to erase it the next day deciding it was sheer lunacy. It's part of the process of selection.

Credit is a system whereby a person who cant pay gets another person who cant pay to guarantee that he can pay.

What you cannot escape you must fight what you cannot fight you must endure.

I don't relax. I sit down and contemplate all the energetic things I should do.

Collaboration is the way to go. Its very timely and fun to do.

Is it crazy to say that I don't often eat breakfast? But every time I go to a diner, I have to have a breakfast-type item, even if it's 11:30 at night. I love my morning eats!

I sometimes don't know what I'm writing when I start writing it, on some level.

No TV show in history, no movie ever made - nothing you can imagine as being written or filmed or performed can turn a normal human being into a Dexter.

There is definitely a need for increasing capacity in higher education; a large part of this is being met in the technical education segment by the private sector and in the non-technical by the state sector. In the public sector, we will do whatever we can afford.