I'm a lousy reader.

I've made my peace with myself.

If you're going to be a bum, be the biggest. If you're going to blow it, blow it big.

I'm what you call a deathbed Catholic.

I get a wild hair up my nose and I want to go.

I collect antiques. Why? Because they're beautiful.

When people tell you they saw your last picture - well, the way they say it sounds like they hope it was.

I'm too young for Medicare and too old for broads to care.

I was always the second heavy.

I have a jaundiced eye but a young mind.

I want to make someone walk straight, but I've left my sons nothing but wars.

I've made upwards of a million bucks in the cops-and-robbers business.

My father was always telling himself no one was perfect, not even my mother.

I only go to mass when somebody asks me, but when I get in trouble I call for a priest.

I'm a lousy reader.

So don't applaud. Just send me the check.

It's hard to explain why I like Europe so much.

If youre going to be a bum be the biggest. If youre going to blow it blow it big.

I am literally smaller than life. I am an unextraordinary-looking person. I've seen people trying to hide their disappointment when they meet me, and I have to watch them get over it.

What is important to me is that people know I respect the business of making movies.

In Unity there is strength; We can move mountains when we're united and enjoy life --Without unity we are victims. Stay united.

Even Jimmy Carter can't be wrong all the time.

Eddie Izzard is absolutely brilliant. I would love to write something for him.

Well, I'm happier talking about other people than me.

I think was able to do a lot of things here.

But the Western countries that link their partnership with the poorest countries with respect for democracy also have to consider that they have obligations towards these countries.

We are very near the end, but have not and will not lose our good cheer.

The first need of a free people is to define their own terms.

The cure might be worse than the problem.

Working for President Nixon was the most extraordinary professional experience of my life. He was endlessly fascinating: brilliant, visionary, kind, generous, warm, funny - and yes, a good man.

I don't think there's any connection between my journalism career and my film career. They are two totally different mediums and very different skills.

The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.

When I was about thirteen, the library was going to get 'Calculus for the Practical Man.' By this time I knew, from reading the encyclopedia, that calculus was an important and interesting subject, and I ought to learn it.

I didn't have a manifesto. I had some discontent. It seemed to me that midcentury mainstream American science fiction had often been triumphalist and militaristic, a sort of folk propaganda for American exceptionalism.

If you are lucky enough to be a genealogist you are lucky enough.

If I could lick the sunset, I'll bet it would taste like Neapolitan ice cream.

God is an immensity, while this disease, this death, which is in me, this small, tightly defined pedestrian event, is merely and perfectly real, without miracle - or instruction.

The tree of life was always there. Evolution just fills in the gaps.

'Monday Night Football' is a competitor to 'Monday Night Raw.'

If a man does not keep pace with his companions perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears owever measured or far away.

I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.

I believe sanity and realism can be restored to the teaching of Mathematical Statistics most easily and directly by entrusting such teaching largely to men and women who have had personal experience of research in the Natural Sciences.