Not everyone can or wants to go straight.

There are criminals who are drug users, but most addicts are criminals only by virtue of prohibition or from resorting to crime to pay inflated black market prices.

To put someone in jail for using drugs in the privacy of his hotel room is just barbaric.

Not everyone can or wants to go straight.

Through Hamas, Iran has been able to buy itself a seat on the table in talking about the Palestinian issue. And, as a result, through Hamas it does play a role in the issue of the Palestinians, as strange as that should sound.

When I start to get that few pounds, which I try to monitor, then I just pull back. So it's really just being conscious.

I haven't read a review of one of my films for the best part of 10 years.

Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win.

The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time.

We really can't forecast all that well, and yet we pretend that we can, but we really can't.

I find shoestrings very hard work. I like big budgets.

I'm not really a big Springsteen guy. I'll listen to the music, but ... I didn't really get attached to it as much as, like, country artists. That's really who I listen to.

The devil's main purpose is not to scare us, in a horror-movie way; when we're scared of him, we're alert to him, and that might undermine his plans. Instead, he wants to quietly, subtly lure us into stepping away from God.

You must pay for your sins. If you have already paid, please ignore this notice.

When I decided to be a singer, my mother warned me I'd be alone a lot. Basically we all are.

It's far better to shoot a good picture than a good-looking picture.

I have learned from my experiences in this industry that there is absolutely no way to control people's opinions on your performance in your movie. You go out there, promote your film and hope people like the work you did.

There was no real fringe theatre in London until way after the war, so either a play was done secretly with a club licence or it was done openly and had to be assessed along with everything else.

It is fitting that yesteryear's swashbuckling newspaper reporter has turned into today's solemn young sobersides nursing a glass of watered white wine after a day of toiling over computer databases in a smoke-free, noise-free newsroom.

If you are not going all the way, why go at all?

I do think moms should be given a break, all across the board. And I think that the most important thing is that you're healthy. After I had my little girl, I wanted to be healthy for her and have a healthy body image so that she hopefully grows up to see that her self worth isn't defined by how thin she is.

We need to build an Argentina with zero poverty.

I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.

I think people ease into this careerist professionalism, so if you're a writer it's your job to manufacture books as opposed to writing them and to go to festivals and spend your life emotionally invested in reviews or the awards. You have to shrink your universe in a way. To me, it's the opposite.

If I loved all the world as I do you, I shouldn't write books to it: I should only write letters to it, and that would be only a clumsy stage on the way to entire telepathy.

When I was at 'SNL,' I would constantly get in arguments, 'Why aren't we more political? We're not going after Bush.' Then look what happened - that Sarah Palin season, they were on fire. It was about something.

The unionists also for their part, want to minimise the potential for change, not only on the equality agenda but on the issues of sovereignty and ending the union.

Great investors need to have the right combination of intuition, business sense and investment talent.