A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.

It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its way.

Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable

For what is truth? In matters of relogion, it is simply the opinion that has survived. In matters of science, it is the ultimate sensation. In matters of art, it is one's last mood.

Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

People cry out against the sinner, yet it is not the sinful, but the stupid, who are our shame. There is no sin except stupidity.

Everyone has a gift for something, even if it is the gift of being a good friend.

If you can't share what's important to you with the people around you, then you have no relationships. It's all just proximity, and turkey, and sports, and weather, and bullshit.

That's what I like about film-it can be bizarre, classic, normal, romantic. Cinema is to me the most versatile thing.

Each thing implies the universe.

They don’t eat that much.” “In comparison to what? Starving marines?

We still have a choice today: nonviolent coexistence or violent co-annihilation. This may well be mankind's last chance to choose between chaos and community.

Stalinism is a pathology of socialism, Hitlerism being the apposite example for capitalism.

[Barack Obama] says at one point, "[Jimmy] Carter, [Bill] Clinton and I suffer from," what he called, "the policy wonk's disease."