I'm not a purist. I'm not impure enough to be a purist.

The Internet is not a place. It’s a great void, a black hole, from which you can call up an incredible amount of disorganized information.

The idea of fame is repulsive, I want to save the world.

I adore [photography's] uneasy mix of fact and fiction - its dubious claim to truth - its status as history.

Why should I be limited by my own biography?

Doing nothing was as honourable as any available course of action. Think of Hamlet, think of Job, think of Jesus before Pilate.

The fire which seems extinguished often slumbers beneath the ashes.

Intuitions are mere reflection of your knowledge to perceive

So new to him," she muttered, "so old to me; so strange to him, so familiar to me; so melancholy to both of us!

He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite.

Defence is our best attack.

Go beyond tolerance to acceptance.

When I got back from the war in 1946 people didn't want the Mr. Smith kind of movie any more, and I refused to make war pictures.

Fame has only the span of the day, they say. But to live in the hearts of people-that is worth something.

A hamburger is an icon of layered circles, the circle being at once the most spiritual and the most sensual of shapes.