And it's the educated barbarian who is the worst: he knows what to destroy.

Men who use terrorism as a means to power, rule by terror once they are in power.

The sad discovery of the adult world was the permanent truth: you don't always do what you want to do; you do what you must.

Just remember enough never to be vulnerable again: total forgetting could be as self-destructive as complete remembering.

one doesn't measure friendship by length of time only; depth of time is just as valuable.

Inquisitive people aren't really very attractive, are they?

Life to most Greeks may be either tragic or comic or a mixture of both; but one thing it never is - and that is, meaningless.

Expect the worst, and you won't be disappointed.

The mind is more vulnerable than the stomach, because it can be poisoned without feeling immediate pain.

Civilization is a perishable commodity.

Nihilists expend everything and everyone except themselves. They are the indispensable men, without whom the world might try to live almost happily.

Whatever you have in your mind, it always carries the potential to come into existence in the world of reality!

Great literary works are not measured by the number of words, but by the impact they create.

What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Only those blinded by greed would refuse to let a friend make a copy.

There is nothing special in the world. nothing magic. just physics.

I never aspired to be a television producer and a movie director, and I'm shocked that this idea is still going on.

It's just hard not to listen to TV: it's spent so much more time raising us than parents have.

I've been through a lot in life, and had some ups and downs. It's what's led me to this day.

More excuses for more failures.

I knew instinctively that it was the very hardness of life in the desert which drew me back there - it was the same pull which takes men back to the polar ice, to high mountains, and to the sea.