"It's not a pretty world, Papa.' 'I've noticed,' my father said softly."

"Art begins . . . when someone interprets, when someone sees the world through his own eyes. Art happens when what is seen becomes mixed with the inside of the person who is seeing it."

"No one knows he is fortunate until he becomes unfortunate, that's the way the world is."

"In Hollywood everything is so documented. If you go for a drink with somebody, it's passed around the world so quickly."

"I get terrified the first day I'm on a film set. I get nervous walking down a red carpet. I find making speeches the most terrifying thing in the world."

"The world is certainty a sudden place."

"To the lost, transfixed among the self-inflicted ruins, All that is non-air (if this indeed is not deception) Is agony immobilized. While Time, The endless idiot, runs screaming round the world."

"While time, the endless idiot, runs screaming around the world"

"No one but a fool would measure their satisfaction by what the world thinks of it."

"Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better."

"There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey."

"How false is the conception, how frantic the pursuit, of that treacherous phantom which men call Liberty: most treacherous, indeed, of all phantoms; for the feeblest ray of reason might surely show us, that not only its attainment, but its being, was impossible. There is no such thing in the universe. There can never be. The stars have it not; the earth has it not; the sea has it not; and we men have the mockery and semblance of it only for our heaviest punishment."

"The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability."

"You can't learn in school what the world is going to do next year."

"If you take all the experience and judgment of men over fifty out of the world, there wouldn't be enough left to run it."

"There are two fools in this world. One is the millionaire who thinks that by hoarding money he can somehow accumulate real power, and the other is the penniless reformer who thinks that if only he can take the money from one class and give it to another, all the world's ills will be cured."

"You take all the experience and judgement of men over fifty out of the world and there wouldn't be enough left to run it."

"put the world on wheels."

"The biggest fool in the world is he who merely does his work supremely well, without attending to appearance."

"The United States has got some of the dumbest people in the world. I want you to know that we know that."

"Rupert Murdoch is the most dangerous man in the world."

"I think the hardest thing to do in the world, show-business-wise, is write comedy."

"The NBAs a Fortune 500 company. Thats how you look at it. And all the other Fortune 500 companies out there in the world, you dont see their CEOs and COOs going to work with white tees and baggy clothes and stuff like that. So I have to take that same approach."

"The NBA's a Fortune 500 company. That's how you look at it. And all the other Fortune 500 companies out there in the world, you don't see their CEOs and COOs going to work with white tees and baggy clothes and stuff like that. So I have to take that same approach."