Facts can't be recounted; much less twice over, and far less still by different persons. I've already drummed that thoroughly into your head.

Anyone who attempts to relate his life loses himself in the immediate. One can only speak of another.

To write does not mean to convert the real into words but to make the power of the word real.

There is always time to take more time.

It is not by believing but by doubting that one can attain to the truth, which is ever changing form and condition.

Forms disappear, words remain, to signify the impossible.

Letters couldn't care less whether what is written with them is true or false.

What happens is that your wretched memory remembers the words and forgets what's behind them

The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

The dictionary is an ossuary of empty words.

How much violence, Marshal, do you think a man can carry before it breaks him?

I don't eat a lot of junk food anymore, but I sure remember it. I used to go through boxes of Little Debbies. I liked Star Crunch, and of course those oatmeal pies.

The rich are only defeated when running for their lives.

God looks like a guidance counselor, God's got that smile. God says, 'How could this be? That's really odd I guess I'll have to check my records, silly me, you know, I'm only God.'

I'd never been to Africa. This really was my first film [The Lost World]. I'd done 10 years of stage. I'd done a little bit of television. But this was my first film.

The worst mockery God can make of a moralist is that He compels him to be a solipsist.

Good merchandise, even hidden, soon finds buyers.

One neutron bomb in the morning may just ruin your whole morning.

You've always been my best friend, my soul mate, and now I've fallen in love with you too. Why is that such a crime?