There cannot be peaceful coexistence in the ideological realm. Peaceful coexistence corrupts.

I was Chairman Mao's dog. What he said to bite, I bit.

There cannot be peaceful coexistence in the ideological realm. Peaceful coexistence corrupts.

You know, writing is really difficult, and it takes a real patience and a skill. I don't know if I have that. I admire it in others, so much, and I envy it.

Revision is not going back and fussing around, but going forward into the process of creation

In theater, you've got to be aware of your whole body because it involves stamina. It involves two-and-a-half hours and a sustained release of energy, maybe for six months.

Chicago is a rough city. It made me raw.

A smartphone links patients' bodies and doctors' computers, which in turn are connected to the Internet, which in turn is connected to any smartphone anywhere. The new devices could put the management of an individual's internal organs in the hands of every hacker, online scammer, and digital vandal on Earth.

Before speaking, consult your inner-truth barometer, and resist the temptation to tell people only what they want to hear.

'Star Wars' meant everything to me growing up.

If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others it is always despicable to lie to oneself.

Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.

For one thing, when you're playing as well as I was at the time, you think you can play with anything. That isn't true, of course, but I didn't know it then.

I think everyone is born 100 percent ego, and after that it's just adjustment.

I find in working always the disturbing intrusion of elements not a part of my most interested vision, and the inevitable obliteration and replacement of this vision by the work itself as it proceeds.

Metaphor has traditionally been regarded as the matrix and pattern of the figures of speech.

I love working in London.

No one wakes up excited to see more advertising, no one goes to sleep thinking about the ads they'll see tomorrow.

A great deal of the capability of an army is its dedication to its cause and its will to fight. You can have the best equipment in the world, you can have the largest numbers in the world, but, if you're not dedicated to your cause, if you don't have the will to fight, then, you are not going to have a very good army.

Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo.

Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.

Never take your eyes off the cash flow because its the life blood of business.

One day, I went to buy something for my dad at the shops, and I heard a song by Nat King Cole called 'Stardust Melody.' It was like I went into a trance or something. I forgot all about my dad sending me to the shop. When I got home, I explained to him what happened. I thought I was going to get a whipping, but he understood.

I drink seven Coca-Colas a day. Regular Coke, which is really bad for me.

I'm interested in how the Internet spreads information.

Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth.

I guess I've been training in the theater for as long as I can remember.