I cannot express how lordly and transfigured I felt at that moment. I was a prince of that harbor, a porpoise king - slim among the buoys and the water traffic.

Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration.

I had come to a place where I was meant to be. I don't mean anything so prosaic as a sense of coming home. This was different, very different. It was like arriving at a place much safer than home.

The mind is an intricate mechanism that can be run on the fuels of both victory and defeatism.

Evil would always come to me disguised in systems and dignified by law.

Honor is the presence of God in man.

The only way I could endure being a coward was if I was the only one who knew it.

I would always be a better hater of things and institutions than a lover of them.

There were far worse strategies in life than to try to make each aspect of one's existence a minor work of art.

I felt the sharp sting of emptiness and solitude that you feel so acutely and with such internal sorrow and wonder whenever music is performed well.

He was ruled by the tyranny of instinct, by passion and the instant legislation of a simple heart.

Realism is knowing fantasy and reality intersect constantly. Realism is living with the awareness that every act changes the world.

Be kind to humanity, she is very lonely, everyone is busy with themselves.

France has been very good for me. It has given me a very worldly-cool attitude.

The truth cannot be delivered with novocaine.

When he buys his ties he has to ask if gin will make them run.

I remember being backstage in my full look and the make-up artist said to me: ‘Did you hear? Kendall Jenner is here.’ ‘And I said, ‘She is? Oh my God!’

A lot of movies about artificial intelligence envision that AIs will be very intelligent but missing some key emotional qualities of humans and therefore turn out to be very dangerous.

If you don't get it built, the work doesn't matter.

My childhood was extremely lonely. I was dyslexic and lots of kids make fun of me. That experience made me tough inside, because you learn to quietly accept ridicule.