Any non-commissioned officer is more of an enemy to a recruit, any schoolmaster to a pupil, then they are if they were free.

The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.

You are like my little dog; when people see you, they know I am nearby.

Television is chewing gum for the eyes.

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

The bat thought I was giving him the kiss of life!

Sunlight is painting.

I can see in your eyes, I can see in your faces, I can see you cry. But what I want to say, there's no reason to cry. Do not, in the name of peace, go in the streets and riot.

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.

Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.

We are all now connected by the Internet, like neurons in a giant brain.

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.

There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.

In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director

All battles are fought by scared men who'd rather be some place else.

Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish.

A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows - his own.

My specialty is detached malevolence.