"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do."

"If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered."

"I'm not a religious person, but I'm very interested in what makes people believe in things."

"Man isn't a noble savage, he's an ignoble savage. He is irrational, brutal, weak, silly, unable to be objective about anything where his own interests are involved—that about sums it up. I'm intereste…"

"Full Metal Jacket suggests there is more to say about war than it is just bad."