All life is an experiment. Every important decision is taken with inadequate knowledge by imperfect men and women whom the future will confound. Yet we act nevertheless.

Wars are like deaths, which, while they can be postponed, will come when they will come and cannot be finally avoided.

A state that privatizes most of its functions will inevitably defend itself by employing its own people as mercenaries

Do not ever go out of yourself because you will get lost even from your life.

There's nothing sillier than fake rough edges, like the handheld camera you sometimes see on "NYPD Blue," shaking and jittering around, unmotivated, way more than any actual documentary camera would.

Traditionally, the love of reading has been born and nurtured in high school English class

It's like telling Mozart that there are too many notes in an opera. Which one do you want us to take out?

I saw what it means to work every weekend and every night, and I realized it doesn't work for me. It's not necessary. If you know what you want, you can achieve it without going crazy.

When Everton knock it long, they don't knock it long

To sum up the state of architecture in America: ninety percent of the buildings we live in and around aren't architecture. No, that's not right - 98 percent.

Maturity is the ability to live in someone else's world.

Left to themselves people are noble, generous, uncorrupted, they'd create a completely new kind of society if only people weren't so blind, stupid and selfish.

You gotta have goals!