Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything except his own nature.

We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

Everywhere in the world music enhances a hall with one exception: Carnegie Hall enhances the music.

Everything makes me nervous - except making films.

There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves.

What is news? It's hard to quantify. Certainly news has changed completely and the morning shows are not really designed to bring you the news except to tell you what happened overnight and the rest of it is a kind of magazine mentality - a little bit of this a little bit of that. It's harder to be an educated and informed citizen.

The first thing I think about when I wake up most mornings is the fact that I'm tired. I have been tired for decades. I am tired in the morning and I am tired while becalmed in the slough of the afternoon and I am tired in the evening except right when I try to go to sleep.

Nothing except the mint can make money without advertising.

Just put down 9/11... I think on most things I'm liberal except on defending ourselves and keeping half the money. Those things I'm kind of conservative on.