"I passionately hate the idea of being with it I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time."

"Race hate isn't human nature race hate is the abandonment of human nature."

"If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends."

"Good evening, ladies and gentleman. My name is Orson Welles. I am an actor. I am a writer. I am a producer. I am a director. I am a magician. I appear onstage and on the radio. Why are there so many of me and so few of you?"

"The essence of creativity is the belief that the true master is an eternal student."

"It is a radiant truth that experience is the stern teacher that gives the examination before the lesson — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"In any crass political calculation, drilling for oil will always win more votes than putting a price on carbon. But if I recall what I was taught in fifth-grade American government class, we elect presidents to do more than crass political calculations."

"Education comes from within you get it by struggle and effort and thought."