Answers are a perilous grip on the universe. They can appear sensible yet explain nothing.

The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.

Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.

All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities.

If we define Futurism as an exploration beyond accepted limits, then the nature of limiting systems becomes the first object of exploration.

When politics and religion are intermingled, a people is suffused with a sense of invulnerability, and gathering speed in their forward charge, they fail to see the cliff ahead of them

There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.

Do actions agree with words? There's your measure of reliability. Never confine yourself to the words.

Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.

Justice belongs to those who claim it, but let the claimant beware lest he create new injustice by his claim and thus set the bloody pendulum of revenge into its inexorable motion

The best contribution one can make to humanity is to improve oneself.

Time is a gift, given to you, given to give you the time you need, the time you need to have the time of your life.

I thought with melancholy how an author spends months writing a book, and maybe puts his heart’s blood into it, and then it lies about unread till the reader has nothing else in the world to do.

Children have empty erasable white boards upon which big people write indelibly imprinted messages into their tender subconscious minds.

Sheriff, are you suggestin' the victom was kidnapped?""I'm only statin' that, at this time, we have no body, only nonvital body parts...

Tell the truth, but lead so improbable a life that the truth will never be believed.

I have been nominated three times. I have the little pieces of paper to prove it.

Pliable human nature is relentlessly pressed upon by its physical environment.

Let's face it, making movies is all risk. Most of the time, batting average-wise, the reward does not outweigh the risk.

Don't stare into a mirror when you are trying to solve a problem.

A resignation is a grave act; never performed by a right-minded man without forethought or with reserve.