Never underestimate the effectiveness of a straight cash bribe.

Never believe anything until it has been officially denied.

A wartime Minister of Information is compelled, in the national interest, to such continuous acts of duplicity that even his natural hair must grow to resemble a wig.

Never underestimate the effectiveness of a straight cash bribe.

A newspaper is always a weapon in somebody's hands.

There's no thrill in easy sailing when the skies are clear and blue, there's no joy in merely doing things which any one can do. But there is some satisfaction that is mighty sweet to take, when you reach a destination that you thought you'd never make.

One cannot be too careful in the selection of adjectives for descriptions. Words or compounds which describe precisely, and which convey exactly the right suggestions to the mind of the reader, are essential.

Graphic design, which evokes the symmetria of Vituvius, the dynamic symmetry of Hambidge, the asymmetry of Mondrian; which is a good gestalt, generated by intuition or by computer, by invention or by a system of coordinates, is not good design if it does not communicate.

Well, I just said that Jesus and I were both Jewish and that neither of us ever had a job, we never had a home, we never married and we traveled around the countryside irritating people.

I did all the Chef Boyardee commercials, in America, when I was young.

I've never tried to manipulate my image.

If it does not serve the Iraqi people, there are only political means that must be followed to reform the government - a new government that we must give a chance to prove that it is there to serve the people.

And we never got the mule, let alone the forty acres.

My philosophy is that I may not like all the questions that you ask, and you may not like all the answers that I give, but this is part of a transparent government.

The same way you can manipulate your environment to encourage sleep, you can also do it to wake up.

I think TV is all about caring, and if you don't care about a character in a drama or a person when they get voted out of a reality show, it's bad TV. I wouldn't care if you dropped a bomb on the 'Big Brother' house.

Worrying is stupid. It's like walking around with an umbrella waiting for it to rain.

I ran into Neal Patrick Harris recently. We were in something called The Purple People Eater. He was maybe 10, but he still remembered it as the worst experience of his life!

True remorse is never just a regret over consequence it is a regret over motive.

I deserve all of the good things that are in my life.

But I quite like that the public has a very short attention span. If I haven't been on telly for a little bit, I can sense it. People don't take as much notice of you, it's really quite palpable.

Anyone who hasnt experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all.

A movie that I've seen probably the most is 'Fanny & Alexander,' the Ingmar Bergman movie. I even dragged my friends to the super long version that had an intermission. I don't know how much they liked me that day.

I don't care about my character here on earth.I don't care about what other people think or say about me, all I care about is my standing before the Lord.

Doesn't matter if I'm right or wrong - if I'm hungry or hot, I'm probably arguing with someone about something. Especially if that someone is rude.

George Liquor is really the richest character I have. I'm amazed there aren't 365 episodes about him on TV already.

My history writing was based on what I saw in strange, exotic places rather than just reading books.

I think there will be an increasing convergence between content and commerce, that it will be about following consumers instead of making consumers come to you, and I am especially excited about the various platforms that will allow more and more access to customers.

I will eat everything. Cheese. Mac and cheese. Anything and cheese. I love that stuff.