As I was going up the stair I met a man who wan't there He wasn't there again today Oh I wish he'd go away!

Poetry is when you talk to yourself.

... but she believed and that was the price of belief. It gave no discounts to friendship (p370)

Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.

. . . to know the order of nature, and regard the universe as orderly is the highest function of the mind.

Being willing to delay pleasure for a greater result is a sign of maturity.

I've heard it said that the most dangerous animal on the planet is the adolescent male.

Those who actually hate animals to the point of being cruel to them are outcasts to the rest of us, no matter where in the world they live.

Management works in the system; leadership works on the system.

I think that when I make a film, I'm terrified that people will come to work and work on something that they're not proud of.