One of these days, I'm going to publish a book of all the pictures I did not take.
It was better to live with disappointment and frustration than to live without hope.
[T]here seems to have been an actual decline in rational thinking. The United States had become a place where entertainers and professional athletes were mistaken for people of importance. They were idolized and treated as leaders; their opinions were sought on everything and they took themselves just as seriously-after all, if an athlete is paid a million or more a year, he knows he is important. . . so his opinions of foreign affairs and domestic policies must be important, too, even though he proves himself to be ignorant and subliterate every time he opens his mouth.
Don't tell me violence doesn't solve anything. Look at Carthage.
It is better to copulate than never.
You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic.
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, (cont. Specialization is for insects.
Liberalism is the transformation of mankind into cattle.
Many innovations fail because consumers irrationally overvalue the old while companies irrationally overvalue the new.
The scientific understanding of some of these [childhood] diseases is advancing quite rapidly. There's some things like premature birth or nutrition, first day deaths that we need a lot more insights so that we can build the tools to solve those problems.
I've been failing for, like, ten or eleven years. When it turns, it'll turn. Right now I'm just trying to squeeze through a very tight financial period, get the movie out, and put my things in order.