The tongue is the only muscle in the human body that never gets tired [talking].
Don't interrupt me while I'm interrupting.
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
It is better to do something than to do nothing while waiting to do everything.
When you're 20 you care what everyone thinks, when you're 40 you stop caring what everyone thinks, when you're 60 you realize no one was ever thinking about you in the first place. You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
Diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions.
If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty, you have no brain.
A lot of the time the film chooses me. I'll be working and I'll get a call from my agent and I'll get the script and then tell him what I think.
The short story, I should point out, is perforce a labor of love in today's literary world; there's precious little economic incentive to write one.
All I did was write it down, one word after the other, beginning and ending with the same one, Bombay.
A life's work should be based on love.