"In this country it is a good thing to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others."

"Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men."

"All styles are good except the tiresome kind."

"Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors but they are seldom or ever inventors."

"God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers."

"I had a couple of movies that I was passionately involved with that I could never get made. 'Richard Pryor,' I wrote for - gosh - over a year. That was close to getting made for two-and-a-half years after that. We're still pushing it, you know. It is weird. Suddenly you wake up and it's like, 'God, five years have gone by.'"

"Rock n' Roll came from the slaves singing gospel in the fields. Their lives were hell and they used music to lift out of it, to take them away. That's what rock n' roll should do - take you to a better place."

"I read the book of Job last night, I don't think God comes out well in it."