"I think the [music] industry really suffered from music being available online because it made young people feel, "why should you pay for music, if it's so readily available for free?""

“To talk of atomic energy in terms of atomic bombs is like talking of electricity in terms of the electric chair.”

“Real inspired acting is never DOING, it is always HAPPENING”

“I turn children into killers.”

“One person can make a difference.”

“Can we ring the bells backward? Can we unlearn the arts that pretend to civilize, and then burn the world? There is a march of science; but who shall beat the drums for its retreat?”

“One of my symptoms included my obsession with ghosts and law enforcement -- I carry around a police badge with me, for example. I became obsessed by Hans Holzer, the greatest ghost hunter ever. That's when the idea of my film Ghostbusters was born.”

Source : "Dan Aykroyd: 'I have Asperger's - one of my symptoms included being obsessed with ghosts' 'I have Asperger's - one of my symptoms included being obsessed with ghosts': Under the microscope with Dan Aykroyd". Interview with Sarah Ewing, www.dailymail.co.uk. December 10, 2013.

“When you write a book, you are asking someone to make an investment in their time and money. A column can come and go as the weeks pass, but a book needs to be timeless.”

“I respect the game that goes on of putting this against that, but I don't respect, nor do I enjoy, an awful lot of the actual programs that go on the air.”