Be suspicious of people who have, or crave, power. Never, ever go near power. Don't become friends with anyone who has real power. It's dangerous.

Never say no to an idea - you never know how that idea will ignite another idea.

However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.

The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good.

I do not always know what I want, but I do know what I don't want.

You're an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.

A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.

The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.

Perhaps it sounds ridiculous, but the best thing that young filmmakers should do is to get hold of a camera and some film and make a movie of any kind at all.

Virulence is the sound of a self-selecting community talking to itself and positively reinforcing itself with no obligation to answer to anyone or look anyone in the eye.

Those times when someone you thought was your friend talks about you behind your back really hurt. Even if you act like you don't care, deep inside, you care.

What the crowd requires is mediocrity of the highest order.

Every song is something that I've been through or an emotion I've felt - like falling in love or heartbreak.

Bugs lurk in corners and congregate at boundaries.

The very first stock I bought right out of college was Berkshire Hathaway.

We believe that the European Union is facing a truly historic choice.

La guerre, la guerre, everything la guerre. That's how I grew up. So for me, it's real. It's not something in the past.

I like my coffee like I like my romantic partners: cold and bitter and prone to giving me anxiety attacks.

Religious faith not only lacks evidence, its independence from evidence is its pride and joy, shouted from the rooftops.