Don't think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. As Charles De Gaulle said, the cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.
Donald Rumsfeld
People have always said that I could have been a highly successful pop artist, if only that were my intention. It never was. My original intention... →
Todd Rundgren
Nobody ever said that growing old would be easy. Just having to hold the newspaper out in your forties and then hair growing out of unusual parts of... →
Geoffrey Rush
I asked, 'What is this guy?' They said, he's part-fish, part-bird, maybe a bit of lizard, and you don't have to go through five hours... →
Sometimes you do feel a script that glows in your hand the moment you start reading it. By page four of Shakespeare in Love, I said, 'I have to... →
It's one thing to say, 'I don't like what you said to me and I find it rude and offensive,' but the moment you threaten violence in... →
Salman Rushdie
Out-of-step intellectuals like Noam Chomsky and the deceased Edward Said have often been dismissed as crazy extremists, 'anti-American,' and... →
I'm not a prophet, but I always thought it was natural for dictatorships to fall. I remember in 1989, two months before the fall of the Berlin... →
It is often said by religious people that without its framework, there is no sense of right or wrong. My view is that religion comes after ethics.
It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.
Bertrand Russell