Secrecy has many advantages, for when you tell someone the purpose of any object right away, they often think there is nothing to it.

I'm not a comedian. I'm an actor who just happens to be funny on occasion.

Anthony Anderson

He who does not research has nothing to teach.

Proverb

The trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him, and that the many were neither perverted nor sadistic, that they were, and still are, terribly and terrifyingly normal. From the viewpoint of our legal institutions and of our moral standards of judgment, this normality was much more terrifying than all the atrocities put together.

Hannah Arendt

When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.

Harry S. Truman

People repeat behaviour that leads to flooding their brains with pleasurable chemicals. The short-term reward loop acts over hours to years, and the long-term reproductive success loop over generations.

Keith Henson

One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be happy is not included in the plan of Creation.

Sigmund Freud

I just spend my money on the essentials. Just basically food and shelter.

David Duchovny

We are to be shut out from men, and shut in with God.

Andrew Murray

My dad says he likes to bask in my glow.

Robert Pattinson

It was an interesting question as to whether the BBC had a future in the digital world, and what form of market failure could justify the licence fee system.

Gavyn Davies

Everybody liked better to conjecture how the thing was, than simply to know it; for conjecture soon became more confident than knowledge, and had a more liberal allowance for the incompatible.

George Eliot

Mixing humor and politics is something that works.

Bryan Cranston