“Trust the government? Why should we?”

With chemicals, it’s shoot first and ask questions later.

Before Alar, there was EDB, a potent human carcinogen allowed in the grain supply and other food for more than a decade after it was known to be dangerous.

Yet is still allowed in potatoes and bananas at levels exposing up to 80,000 children a day to what EPA itself says are unacceptable high risks.

The reality of life is that we are exposed to a multiplicity of toxic substances.

There was heptachlor, linked to leukemia, and aldicarb, which poisoned thousands of California watermelons.

How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.

I shouldn’t be saying this – high treason, really – but I sometimes wonder if Americans aren’t fooled by our accent into detecting brilliance that may not really be there.

Why should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end?

It’s very rare that you get a director that lets you be creative and bring what you feel your character should do or should be.

I have pushed the boat out as far as I should in terms of taking on too many things. I’m getting older and I just could not take it any more. I am now monitoring myself very closely and I’m just trying not to get into that sort of state again.

Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.

As a roadie for the Jimi Hendrix Experience, I learned that I should give up being a guitar player.

Scotland should be nothing less than equal with all the other nations of the world.