I love working on a typewriter - the rhythm, the sound; it's like playing the piano, which I do, too.

You know, young actors say all the time, 'Should I use my own life experience?' And my response is, 'What choice do you have?'

Liberalism is a religion. Its tenets cannot be proved, its capacity for waste and destruction demonstrated. But it affords a feeling of spiritual rectitude at little or no cost.

The essence of jiu-jitsu is philosophy.

I took the liberal view for many decades, but I believe I have changed my mind.

We cannot live without trade. A society can neither advance nor improve without excess of disposable income. This excess can only be amassed through the production of goods and services necessary or attractive to the mass. A financial system which allows this leads to inequality; one that does not leads to mass starvation.

Old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance.