“I’ve been sort of traveling around the country for ten years talking about independent features.”

do i have political views? you bet! i think the best way to express them is in your work, and then get the hell off the stage

Cuba ought to be free and independent, and the government should be turned over to the Cuban people.

Wit, like poetry, is insusceptible of being constructed upon rules founded merely in reason. Like faith, it exists independent of reason, and sometimes in hostility to it.

It’s the combination of improbability with an independently given pattern that discredits chance.

No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.

Trust nothing but your own experience.

Why go with the majority when you can find your own direction?

Hero shows you how to solve the problem – yourself.

The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.