One does not allow the plumbers to decide the temperature, depth and timing of a bath.

One does not allow the plumbers to decide the temperature, depth and timing of a bath.

I can hire one-half of the working class to kill the other half.

There is something supremely reassuring about television; the worst is always yet to come.

Commercials on television are similar to sex and taxes; the more talk there is about them, the less likely they are to be curbed.

The photographer begins to feel big and bloated and so big he can't walk through one of these doors because he gets a good byline; he gets notices all over the world and so forth; but they're really - the important people are the people he photographs.

It is heartrending to read the entries in many an old family Bible - the records of suffering, distress, and blasted hopes.

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.

There is something divine, mystical, magical and unexplainable in the universe that is listening and responding to each of us.

When I wrote "Green, Green," it was like a really a statement of where I was at philosophically in my life.

Well, I believe that life is very complicated. And in a way, the only way you can show life in a truthful way is to show how complicated it is as an individual, but also your relation between a complicated life and the complications you have inside you.

I didn't bother with television myself because it consisted largely of windmills, puppets and pottery wheels, interspersed with elderly men smoking pipes while they discussed Harold Macmillan in Old Etonian accents.

I watched 'Ghostbusters' from the age of four. It's my favorite movie, still. Bill Murray's, like, the weirdest straight man that you've ever seen. He's convinced that he's the normal one, even though he's definitely not.

People don’t take trips, trips take people.

The government can't create jobs; they'll destroy jobs trying to do it. The government doesn't have any money; all they have is a printing press. We need to free markets to create jobs; if the government wants to help, they should reduce their burden on the economy.

Heathens are unredeemed outcasts from heaven who roam the planet without hope of surviving the deaths of their bodies. They may have values, but they are not secured by any divine source. Yet we embrace this because we think it represents the truth.

I don't know why you would trade a stud pitcher.

There's no harm in hoping for the best as long as you're prepared for the worst.

My half-suppressed Canadian years, my whole childhood and youth, rose like a corpse from the bottom of the sea to confront me.

Vinyl survived, we managed not to kill it. Knowing that you’ve taken part in this fight... You can’t imagine the happiness it brings. Every time I see a kid going out of the store with a vinyl record under the arms, my heart beats faster. Music should only be this. An intense emotion.

My relationship with 'Pollyanna' is a very personal one, because Pollyanna got me through my childhood.

The function of combat is not merely to perpetrate violence, but to perpetrate violence on command, instantaneously and reflexively. The function of the service academies is to prepare men for leadership positions where they may someday exercise that command.

I've never tried to define my states of mind when I write.

I've dealt with a lot of guns over my career, so I'm getting better and better with firearms.

Yes, disappointment over perceived unfairness, injustice, promises not kept, tends to go hand in hand with increasing prosperity. Expectations are dashed. What can I say!

With us tonight is William Warfield, who is with us tonight. He is a wonderful man, and so is his wife.

When I'm not thrilled, I get funny.

I hope I'm a spiritual person. I'm trying to be a spiritual person.

Surgeons always underestimate the pain and disability involved in what they do to people.