"I just think it's rather odd that a nation that prides itself on its virility should feel compelled to strap on forty pounds of protective gear just in order to play rugby."

“People are much too solemn about things - I'm all for sticking pins into episcopal behinds.”

“Westminster Abbey is nature crystallized into a conventional form by man, with his sorrows, his joys, his failures, and his seeking for the Great Spirit. It is a frozen requiem, with a nation's prayer ever in dumb music ascending.”

“Oversized houses, like oversized cars, seem to be a particularly American fixation.”

Source : "The Too-Big House" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. June 21, 2011.

“Of course, we are all egoists. Egoism is so much a part of our humanity.”

“It's easier to record in LA than in New York and Detroit, because the space in LA is green, and there's sunshine, and I need all those positive vibes.”

“Most people engage in activities that are tension-relieving rather than goal-achieving.”

“In God's name let us go on bravely.”

Source : Saint Joan (of Arc) (1961). “Joan of Arc: Self Portrait”

“I think Jon Cryer and Charlie Sheen have a lot of chemistry between them.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.