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“Fame, wealth, and honour! what are you to Love?”
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“Take events in your life seriously, take work seriously, but don't take yourself seriously, or you'll become affected, pompous and boring.”
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“If you are going to write, nothing will stop you, and if you are not going to write, nothing will make you.”
Source : Interview with Sarah Kinson, www.theguardian.com. May 17, 2007. 
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“I'm reminded of a female patient who was particularly aroused by the shape of her husband's shoulder. And this hint of perversion should ideally remain a secret for both partners.”
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“I have been working out for 30 years, staying in shape in the dream that someday I would get to play a sex scene. Finally I get one, and they cut it.”
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“Why can't you write a great pop song when you are 85? Maybe you can.”
Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“It is therefore recommended... to set apart Thursday the eighteenth day of December next, for solemn thanksgiving and praise, that with one heart and one voice the good people may express the grateful feelings of their hearts and consecrate themselves to the service of their divine benefactor.”
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“Dostoevsky's visible world was a world of sensationalism. He may in the last analysis be a great mystic or a great psychologist; but he almost always reveals his genius on a stage crowded with people who behave like the men and women one reads about in the police news.”
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“The golf swing is among the most stressful and unnatural acts in sports, short of cheering for the Yankees.”
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“We're at war with Japan. We were attacked by Japan. Do you want to kill Japanese, or would you rather have Americans killed?”
Source : "The Making of the Atomic Bomb". Book by Richard Rhodes, p. 596, 1986.
