I cannot tolerate fools - won't have anything to do with them. I only want to associate with brilliant people.
The songwriting process is different on every record because you're never coming from the same place when you're writing.
The military is arguably the most significant social institution in our country.
Sometimes you have to play for a long time to be able to play like yourself.
I had pictured myself as a filmmaker but I had never pictured myself as a director if that makes any sense at all.
I really like The Beatles.
Conservation may be a sign of personal virtue, but it is not a sufficient basis for a sound, comprehensive energy policy.
The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
I don't Twitter or blog. I'm bad at small talk, and don't have good 'chat'. Talk to me about publishing, and I can go on for hours.
I don't like to intellectualize about my acting.
We confide in our strength, without boasting of it we respect that of others, without fearing it.
You have to have patience to be a legislator.
You're going to get much better depth of flavor.
You are seeing more distress, and defaults are rising.
I've always felt that the Nobel Prize gives me nothing as far as science is concerned.
Below the navel there is neither religion nor truth.
A clear conscience laughs at false accusations.
The winner has many friends, the loser has good friends.
A fool's tongue is long enough to cut his own throat.
Time is a wealth of change, but the clock in its parody makes it mere change and no wealth.
When the sky falls we'll all catch larks.
He that is warm thinks all so.
Silence was never written down.
If you would shoot a general, shoot his horse first.
With money, a dragon - without it, a worm.
Silence is the voice of complicity.
Do not rejoice at my grief, for when mine is old yours will be new.
If the mountain won't come to mohammed, mohammed must go to the mountain.
Before telling secrets on the road, look in the bushes.
The eye that sees all things else, sees not itself.
