I've always been attracted to classic patterns in architecture, music and drama.

It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is when one is playing golf.

Most human beings are quite likable if you don't see too much of them.

We forget that Socrates was famed for wisdom not because he was omniscient but because he realized at the age of seventy that he still knew nothing.

We cannot get happiness by striving after it, and yet with an effort we can impart it.

The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.

It may be that all games are silly. But then, so are humans.

No man is uninteresting when his hat is blown off and he has to scuttle after it down the street.

Chekhov will seek out the key situation in the life of a cabman or a charwoman, and make them glow for a brief moment in the tender light of his sympathy.

There are travelers who fear to own delicate hands more than to meet a lion, and soldiers who would rather lose a limb than gain a beautiful nose by artificial methods.

A boy in love is not mainly a calf but a poet.

To take control of your life ... just let go!

Academic freedom and free speech mean the right to consider ideas with which you might disagree.

I have always been a softie, and I fight it with every fiber of my being. Sadly, my being's fibers need to hit the gym.

I can’t stop traffic on Fifth Avenue, not unless I walk in front of an oncoming cab.

The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.

If you do the best you can, you never have to look back.

Love never doubts or suffers or cries. Love shows no fear, love tells no lies.

You have sat too long for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!

Thank you, Geary. (Arik) For what? (Geary) For giving me a life that is the best dream I’ve ever had. (Arik)

Personally making a film solely for the shock value serves no purpose to me.