South Vietnam had to be built from scratch and, from the very beginning, depended far too much on the Western superpowers. As in the case of a person on public welfare, this dependency, which became greater with each day, was quite difficult to shake.

It is the fate of operating systems to become free.

There just is exponentially more money in the movie business than in the music business. As a result there are more people involved in the creative process.

I believe there are two periods in life, one for the bike, the other for becoming active on one's work.

Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.

The whole is the false.

For the last half of my life I have had the doubtful benefit of a brother whose literary reputation is much greater than my own.

We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.

One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation.

Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing.

Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread.

When I discover who I am, I'll be free.

Who has suffered? The families of the dead, no doubt. But a greater loss was inflicted on Pakistan because, as I said, we lost the pillars of our society.

There's nothing worse than talking about yourself to find out that you're not that interesting.

I love Chicago. It's such a great town, and it's got great culture and great history, and it's not as extreme as LA or New York, and it's just- it's hard for me for work, because I don't live and work in the same place and that's tough. But I'm- I love it.

Education is not a preparation for life; education is life itself.

If the blame (if there is any) can be shifted from him to me, I shall help him and our cause by taking it. I desire, therefore, that all the responsibility that can be put upon me shall go there and shall remain there.

Everything I've ever done was out of fear of being mediocre.

So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we'll be called a democracy.

On close inspection, this device turned out to be a funereal juke box - the result of mixing Lloyd's of London with the principle of the chewing gum dispenser.