I'm really enamored with the idea of a reformed society, and I've always been fascinated with the Dark Ages as well as the power vacuum that followed the fall of the Roman Empire.

If overconfidence can cause the Roman Empire to fall, I ought to be able to get a ground ball.

My last days at MGM were like the fall of the Roman Empire in fast motion.

Beginning under the Roman Empire, intellectual leadership in the West had been provided by Christianity. In the middle ages, who invented the first universities - in Paris, Oxford, Cambridge? The church.

As we all know from the Roman empire, big empires go down if the borders are not well-protected.

Great empires are not maintained by timidity.