I don't even want you to nod, that's how much you annoy me. Just freeze and shut up.

When you are wrestling for possession of a sword, the man with the handle always wins.

The difference between stupid and intelligent people - and this is true whether or not they are well-educated - is that intelligent people can handle subtlety.

This is one of the two great labyrinths into which human minds are drawn: the question of free will versus predestination.

You should not believe a thing only because you like to believe it. We call that 'Diax's Rake.

To condense fact from the vapor of nuance.

Any property that's open to common use gets destroyed. Because everyone has incentive to use it to the max, but no one has incentive to maintain it.

See, the world is full of things more powerful than us. But if you know how to catch a ride, you can go places.

Constable Moore had reached the age when men can subject their bodies to the worst irritations - whisky, cigars, woolen clothes, bagpipes - without feeling a thing or, at least, without letting on.

And it happened all the time that the compromise between two perfectly rational alternatives was something that made no sense at all.

The difference between ignorant and educated people is that the latter know more facts. But that has nothing to do with whether they are stupid or intelligent.

Forgiving is easier when we understand that forgiving someone else means that we are freeing ourselves of an unnecessary burden.

It all comes down to this: when you recognise your loneliness in another person, when you see desperation so familiar to yours written across someone else, you can’t just let them leave.

Life is too damn short to not tell someone how you feel. Don't let someone because you're afraid or you'll lose them forever.

A good education should leave much to be desired.

Sitting in a room being forced to listen to 'The Chanukah Song' over and over." [on his idea of Hell]

Death is not fearful. What's fearful is giving up.

Good and evil are polar concepts - one can't exist without the other.

Every film you do, you always look at it and you think, "I could do better," but I'm never going to tell people what I could do better. I think it's up to them to make up their own mind.

The observer cannot be left out of the description of the observation.

Finally, I was no longer a student and was making music for myself.