I think one thing that does cause unhappiness is protracted anxiety and worry.

As countries embrace mass higher education, the cost of maintaining universities increases dramatically relative to an elite system.

There is far too much law for those who can afford it and far too little for those who cannot.

The first country to adopt happiness as an official goal of public policy is the tiny little country of Bhutan in Asia near China and India.

If you think the cost of education is high, think about ignorance.

I think any self-respecting educational institution ought to judge its policies by its best estimate of what their long-term consequences for their students and for the society will be.

There's a great deal of difference between thinking reflectively about moral issues and achieving higher standards of ethical behavior.

I suspect that no community will become humane and caring by restricting what its members can say.

The oldest of the arts and the youngest of the professions.

Universities are institutions run by amateurs to train professionals.

I won't say there aren't any Harvard graduates who have never asserted a superior attitude. But they have done so to our great embarrassment and in no way represent the Harvard I know.

And the great question for mankind is what is to be loved or hated next, whenever and old love or fear has lost its hold.

Academia is the death of cinema. It is the very opposite of passion. Film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates.

A woman is a poem, a man is a report

Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living. The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in that mirror which waits always before or behind.

I am more comfortable doing a drama.

The pilot is easy. It is 30 minutes, 20 minutes. It is not that much to juggle.

Maturity is when all of your mirrors turn into windows.

Bruno: We're not supposed to be friends, you and me. We're meant to be enemies. Did you know that?

Knowing one was comprised of recycled matter only and that selfhood was a delusion did not take away the aching of the heart.

You have no control over other people's taste, so focus on staying true to your own.