In the movies first impressions are everything. Or, to put it less drastically, in the movies there are no later impressions without a first impression, because you will have stopped watching. Sometimes a critic persuades you to give an unpromising-looking movie a chance, but the movie had better convey the impression pretty quickly that the critic might be right.

All intellectual tendencies are corrupted when they consort with power.

It is a good rule in life to be wary of the company of people who think of themselves in the third person, no matter how well justified they might seem to be in doing so.

If an artist is any good at all, then he or she will have a later phase that's more interesting than the early one.

It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.

Delivering the State of the Union? That bloke couldn't deliver pizza.

All honest labor becomes easy; it only becomes hard when done with unwillingness.