"Quality, not quantity, is my measure."

“All I want is that Americans still be able to read the alphabet in a hundred years. I am not very ambitious.”

“It is pretty damn obvious that there are positive impacts of climate change, even though we are not always allowed to talk about them.”

Source : "The IPCC report takes us from alarmism to adaptation" by Simon Jenkins, www.theguardian.com. March 31, 2014.

“Who the hell can he be? He's never had V.D.”

“When I'm making a movie, it's making use of my creative juices, and it fills me up with what really is - I think my purpose here is to tell stories.”

Source : Interview with Tasha Robinson, film.avclub.com. September 22, 2011.

“Find a priest who understands English and doesn't look like Rasputin.”

“But the philosophical and scientific process which I call 'secularization' necessarily involves the divesting of spiritual meaning from the world of nature; the desacralization of politics from human affairs; and the deconsecration of values from the human mind and conduct.”

“Evolution is a theory with more holes than a Dutch dam of swiss cheese.”

“We all lose somebody we care about and want to find some comforting way of dealing with it, something that will give us a little closure, a little peace.”