Nothing makes a man feel older than to hear a band coming up the street and not to have the impulse to rush downstairs and out on to the sidewalk.

The biggest obstacle to professional writing is the necessity for changing a typewriter ribbon.

In a house where there are small children the bathroom soon takes on the appearance of the Old Curiosity Shop.

If Mr. Einstein doesn't like the natural laws of the universe, let him go back to where he came from.

NC-17 means that you get it in like 3 theaters. They won't run the spots on MTV, won't run the advertising. It's the kiss of death so there was really no other choice.

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.

No matter what his crimes were, Alton Sterling did not deserve to be executed for them. Look, guys, the punishment for resisting arrest shouldn't be death. The punishment for selling bootleg CDs shouldn't be death. The punishment for having a gun in an open-carry state shouldn't be death. The punishment for being a black man shouldn't be death.

Opinion polls often suffer on account of unexpected developments once the electoral process starts, such as the death of a political leader (as in the case of the late Rajiv Gandhi).