"Communism was a great system for making people equally poor - in fact, there was no better system in the world for that than communism. Capitalism made people unequally rich."

“What is any of this to us? Time is endless and ours. Love and Death are only the games we play in it.”

“I suppose if the offending paparazzi was wearing a hoodie and I shot him, it would all blow over.”

Source : "Alec Baldwin in Criminal Investigation After Allegedly Attacking Photographers" by Alexandra J. Gratereaux, www.foxnews.com. June 20, 2012.

“And my mother caught wind of this. She never had really tried to guide my career or really had any say in my life as an adult, but this was the one time she said she would never speak to me again if I quit acting.”

“There's a fragment that goes, "Some say the most beautiful thing in the world is a great cavalry riding down over the hill. Others say it's a vast infantry on the march. But I say the most beautiful thing is the beloved." How political can you get?”

Source : Interview with Anne-Marie Cusac, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. March 31, 2003.

“And I've always loved commercials. I like working out how to organically weave a brand's message into the writing process. It's like an improv show, where comics ask the audience to throw out a word and a skit is built around it.”

“I make pink look pretty damn good.”

“People want the right to die at a time of their own choosing. Too many families have watched helplessly as a relative dies slowly, longing for death.”

Source : "Cardinals, bishops and doctors must not deny us our last rights" by Polly Toynbee, www.theguardian.com. May 11, 2006.

“Contradictions in human character are one of its most consistent notes ...”

Source : Muriel Spark (2014). “Loitering with Intent”, p.16, New Directions Publishing