"Close your mouth, Michael; we are not a codfish."

"The best hope is that one of these days the ground will get disgusted enough just to walk away - leaving people with nothing more to stand on than what they have so bloody well stood for up to now."

"A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education."

"When vultures watching your civilization begin dropping dead, it is time to pause and wonder."

"When you're young, try to be realistic; as you get older, become idealistic. You'll live longer."

"Those who are skilled in combat do not become angered, those who are skilled at winning do not become afraid. Thus the wise win before they fight, while the ignorant fight to win."

"Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and thata€?s all you have."

"Nearly all legislation involves a weighing of public needs as against private desires; and likewise a weighing of relative social values."

"As soon as I think that I am a little body, I want to preserve it, to protect it, to keep it nice, at the expense of other bodies; then you and I become separate."

"All dogmas perish the thinking mind, especially ones you agree with."

"The gods help them that help themselves."

"I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations."