I don't believe in being serious about anything. I think life is too serious to be taken seriously.

Programs like 'Jeopardy' and 'Who Wants to Be a Millionaire' are ridiculous. They're the stupidest shows in history. They're making us dumber. They don't give us information, they give us facts, factoids. You don't learn who Napoleon was and how he was motivated. You learn what year he was born, and when he died. That's useless.

People ask me to predict the future, when all I want to do is prevent it. Better yet, build it. Predicting the future is much too easy, anyway. You look at the people around you, the street you stand on, the visible air you breathe, and predict more of the same. To hell with more. I want better.

We're a free society; we've got television. We have radio. We have newspapers. We have the videocassette, which is coming into play. These are new freedoms.

How talented was death. How many expressions and manipulations of hand, face, body, no two alike.

There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.

If you learn only methods, you'll be tied to your methods, but if you learn principles you can devise your own methods.