I think it is very difficult to legislate for morality.

Books are the key. A book cannot be accessed from afar. You have to hold it, you have to read it.

The worst thing about being a great power is when you're not one any more. It takes centuries to get over it.

People who get through life dependent on other people's possessions are always the first to lecture you on how little possessions count.

If I did things for the money, I'd have done adverts in the 1980s, when I was hot enough to be offered them, and 'Police Academy 6,' which I was asked to write.

My advice to anyone adapting a novel is that once they've read it and learnt to understand it, then they must throw it away and never look at it again!

The Germans are a cruel race. Their operas last for six hours and they have no word for fluffy.