I hate politics, hate deals, and deal-making, hate meeting with attorneys and agents.

If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.

Johann von Goethe

Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.

G. K. Chesterton

In order to fully realize how bad a popular play can be, it is necessary to see it twice.

George Bernard Shaw

Virtue is not photogenic. What is it to be a nice guy? To be nothing, that's what. A big fat zero with a smile for everybody.

Kirk Douglas

Now I'm an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions.

Orson Welles

The car has become an article of dress without which we feel uncertain, unclad, and incomplete.

Marshall McLuhan

In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power, we need scholars to spare us the abjection of learning.

Jean Baudrillard

I have heard it said that the first ingredient of success -- the earliest spark in the dreaming youth -- if this; dream a great dream.

John A. Appleman

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

Derek Bok

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive.

Thomas Jefferson

Drama is based on the Mistake. I think someone is my friend when he really is my enemy, that I am free to marry a woman when in fact she is my mother, that this person is a chambermaid when it is a young nobleman in disguise, that this well-dressed young man is rich when he is really a penniless adventurer, or that if I do this such and such a result will follow when in fact it results in something very different. All good drama has two movements, first the making of the mistake, then the discovery that it was a mistake.

W. H. Auden

Evil is something you recognize immediately you see it: it works through charm.

Brian Masters