Because the completion of labour service was a precondition for permission to study at the university, I was able to begin my studies of Germanistics and Classical Philology during the summer term of 1939.

The war is not planned. I don't believe that any responsible person plans it. But it's thought as possible.

Literature has its own life, even in a dictatorship like the Soviet Union.

Humor is really one of the hardest things to define, very hard. And it's very ambiguous. You have it, or you don't. You can't attain it.

On average, the higher the novelty score a film had, the better it did at the box office. But only up to a point. Push past that novelty threshold, and there's a precipice; the revenue earned by a film fell off a cliff.

There's always another idea round the corner that I want to do. So while I can, it's important to do them, because there will come a time when I can't.

I vividly remember sixth grade. It's the year when kids turn mean, and it's definitely no longer okay to cry in public. So we force our hot tears back, and they burn our throats all the way down.

I think a lot of times with football players, we're just head down, grinding away, maybe not enjoying it as much as we should.