How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.

In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.

It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone.

I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.

There is more to sex appeal than just measurements. I don't need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal, picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain.

When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.

The English contribution to world cuisine - the chip.

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are the conditions for development.

Central banks don't have divine wisdom. They try to do the best analysis they can and must be prepared to stand or fall by the quality of that analysis.

There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

God creates, I do not create. I assemble and I steal everywhere to do it - from what I see, from what the dancers can do, from what others do.

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

It is piracy, not overt online music stores, which is our main competitor.

There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment