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.

Luck, if there is such a thing, is either going to favor everyone equally or going to exhibit a preference for the prepared.

No one enjoys being equal.

The great movie can be as free of being a record of the progress of the protagonist as is a dream.

There is no such thing as character other than the habitual action, as Mr. Aristotle told us two thousand years ago.

The study of acting consists in the main of getting out of one’s own way, and in learning to deal with uncertainty and being comfortable being uncomfortable.

I like Bach. I like Randy Newman.