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The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

He who has the audacity to stop you from dreaming is he who had given you the imaginations to think, but not those who watch you as you explore the dreams!

I always dressed as a man when I was at school. I loved wearing a tie and a shirt, and I was always wearing suits. Annie Lennox was my hero. I was always playing men in high school.

I want everyone to wear what they want and mix it in their own way. That, to me, is what is modern.

Acting is a tough business, but if you really want to do it, you should go full force.

America's honor, your honor is at stake. Go out and preserve the greatest country in the history of the world.

You must find the place inside yourself where nothing is impossible.

My athleticism was really the core to social acceptance, because in those days the overwhelming number of students came from more of a public school background than I did.

What goes up must come down.

I would like to say how much I resent people who say of the Islamic Republic that this is our culture - as if women like to be stoned to death, or as if they like to be married at the age of nine.

Elites don't care not one whit about school children. If they truly cared, what they would do is protect them.

History shows, in my opinion, that no nation can survive the tension, conflict and antagonism of two competing languages and cultures. It is a blessing for an individual to be bilingual; it is a curse for a society to be bilingual.

The truth is, everyone likes to look down on someone. If your favorites are all avant-garde writers who throw in Sanskrit and German, you can look down on everyone. If your favorites are all Oprah Book Club books, you can at least look down on mystery readers. Mystery readers have sci-fi readers. Sci-fi can look down on fantasy. And yes, fantasy readers have their own snobbishness. I’ll bet this, though: in a hundred years, people will be writing a lot more dissertations on Harry Potter than on John Updike. Look, Charles Dickens wrote popular fiction. Shakespeare wrote popular fiction—until he wrote his sonnets, desperate to show the literati of his day that he was real artist. Edgar Allan Poe tied himself in knots because no one realized he was a genius. The core of the problem is how we want to define “literature”. The Latin root simply means “letters”. Those letters are either delivered—they connect with an audience—or they don’t. For some, that audience is a few thousand college professors and some critics. For others, its twenty million women desperate for romance in their lives. Those connections happen because the books successfully communicate something real about the human experience. Sure, there are trashy books that do really well, but that’s because there are trashy facets of humanity. What people value in their books—and thus what they count as literature—really tells you more about them than it does about the book.

Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.

The French like to play the intellectual card; they don't like to be over-sexy. The sexiness comes from the way they walk and hold themselves.

I am Fidel Castro and we have come to liberate Cuba.

The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information.

The part of Limerick we lived in is Georgian, you know, those Georgian houses. You see them in pictures of Dublin.

The Pyramids are perfect, but you can't put the Pyramids in the middle of Manhattan. In the desert, the combination of light and form makes it perfect.

You're an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.