History is like a ghost. It is as dead as alive.

God is a philosophical black hole-the point where reason breaks down.

The angel within me thrives on the devil within me.

The final discovery is the discovery of knowledge.

The world is truly beautiful solely in the eyes of a true philosopher.

If knowledge is my God, doubt would be my religion.

It is human to search for the theory of everything and it is superhuman to find it.

Certainty is the most vivid condition of ignorance and the most necessay condition for knowledge.

The meaning of life is 'the ultimate questioner's vanity.'

Professionalism is nothing but a crude insistance on the mechanization of mankind.

The stem of greatness sprouts from the seed of sacrifice.

So what is a good meditator? A good meditator meditates.

We live, I regret to say, in an age of surfaces

Alex resisted the urge to throw Seb off the balcony and see if he could fly.

It's nice to be pushed, when you're being pushed in the right direction.

I (Percy) set Nico on guard duty with Beckendorf and the Stoll brothers, figuring he'd be safely out of the way...."What's happening?" Nico demanded, trying to climb up next to me.

I want to write a book of poetry, as well as children's stories.

I have Algerian, Turkish, Swedish, Spanish blood: I feel like a citizen of the world. Life and cinema don't have borders.

I also live in the present, due to the constraints of the space-time continuum.

We dare not forget that we are the heirs of that first revolution.

I still feel like a little boy on the set, watching the movie magic being made.