Cultivate your Futurism. I'll cultivate my Döblinism.

But the main things about a man are his eyes and his feet. He should be able to see the world and go after it.

And if you ask again whether there is any justice in the world, you'll have to be satisfied with the reply: Not for the time being; at any rate, not up to this Friday.

Writing is not chewing your nails and picking your teeth, but a matter of public interest.

You shouldn't be a big shot about your fate. I'm an enemy of Destiny, I'm not a Greek, I'm a Berliner.

No country is so peaceful as the one that leads into death. Life arches above one's head like a bridgespan, and below it flows the water, carries the boat, takes it further.

Much unhappiness comes from walking alone. When there are several, it's somewhat different. I must get into the habit of listening to others, for what the others say concerns me, too.

The cities are the principal home and seat of the human group. They are the coral colony for Man, the collective being.

One encounters very capable fathers abashed by their piano-playing daughters. Three measures of Schumann make them red with embarrassment.

My books, at any rate, deserved to be burned.

The world is made of sugar and dirt.

I think life is so difficult to catch, it's so furtive, that a copy, a film, can in no way catch it and represent it.

Death is the next step after the pension-it's perpetual retirement without pay.

Favoriting tweets has become a form of acknowledging that you've read what someone else has written.

Members of trusting teams admit weaknesses and mistakes, take risks in offering feedback and assistance, and focus time and energy on important issues, not politics.

I think my films are very English. That certain emotional distance, interest in the world, interest in irony. These are all deeply English propositions.

American public policy is run on a myth.

You do not truly own anything that you can't carry in both arms at a dead run

The furthest possible thing from the truth is that I hate or dislike women.

I live life in the margins of society, and the rules of normal society don't apply to those who live on the fringe.

You are trying to kidnap what I have rightfully stolen, and I think it quite ungentlemanly.