For man, the death of the body is inevitable, and is determined by time and circumstance; but, with proper precaution, the death of the soul may be totally avoided.

Hide what you have to hide And tell what you have to tell You'll see your problems multiplied If you continually decide To faithfully pursue The policy of truth

Some fearful sights there be that creep By night - I mean that harass sleep; But tenfold more alarming seem these when They brave the day, to breathe the air like men.

Faith is reason denying absurdity in the face of the unknown.

Truth was truth, whether I darkened my eyes to it or not.

Woman, thou art a river, deep and wide, Of waters soft and sweet: Alas! I've never reached the other side; Though oft I've wet my feet!

How Time doth lash us with sharp pains, Set loose our teeth, snatch wisps of hair, dim eyes -- And finally bend our backs toward earth To find the fittest place for burial.

Life is a waste of woes, And Death a river deep, That ever onward flows, Troubled, yet asleep.

The Ideal is the invisible Sun which is always on the meridian of the soul.

Man's life is entirely in his operations, which may all be classed under three heads: he thinks, he feels, and he acts -- these three modes of activity exhaust his powers.

I think if you study--if you learn too much of what others have done, you may tend to take the same direction as everybody else.

I know I'm not a selfish player. People around me know I'm not a selfish player. I do everything I can to make people around me understand I'm not a selfish player.

I think philosophy is all about lived experience, which is to say life in the streets, life in a variety of different contexts.

The Devil was sick - the Devil a monk would be, The Devil was well the devil a monk was he

I want to make her cry and then lick up the tears.

With an artist no sane man quarrels, any more than with the colour of a child's eyes.

I think film should be interactive. But at the same time, it's also great to go see a big popcorn movie and be taken to a complete fantasy world.

A Wired reader told me once, Get a life, which I read from the back of a yacht in the Aegean, while eating fresh sea urchins and drinking terrific Montrachet.

You just learn one thing for the day, that can change a fight.

I do not believe in the Cinema verite. Sometimes a really good lie is better than any truth.