A sneer is like a flame; it may occasionally be curative because it cauterizes, but it leaves a bitter scar.

Truth is like heat or light; its vibrations are endless, and are endlessly felt.

Nobody who is somebody looks down on anybody.

As soon as you feel too old to do a thing, do it.

One must desire something to be alive.

Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation.

One must desire something to be alive; perhaps absolute satisfaction is only another name for Death.

I have heard that a man might be his own lawyer, but you can't be your own judge.

A pint can't hold a quart - if it holds a pint it is doing all that can be expected of it.

Nothing may be more selfish than remorse.

A letter is a risky thing; the writer gambles on the reader's frame of mind.

If you don't have love, you don't have much at all.

There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program - your tax-dollar will go further.

An artist is attracted to certain kinds of form without knowing why. You adopt a position intuitively; only later do you attempt to rationalize or even justify it.

Wherefore for the public interest and benefit of human society it is requisite that the highest obligations possible should be laid upon the consciences of men.

All of a sudden the market is all about algos and routers.

We do not measure a culture by its output of undisguised trivialities but by what it claims as significant.

Words are just rules and regulations to me.

I spent all of my money on film. I remember I would do these set-design jobs or transcribe or just anything to get, like, a $100 check and go immediately to Adorama and buy expired film.

My second hit was a flop.

What path you choose is not important. How intensely you pursue that path is much more important