It seems to me that I have always existed and that I possess memories that date back to the Pharaohs.

Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.

Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.

I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.

Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.

Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.

A man is a critic when he cannot be an artist, in the same way that a man becomes an informer when he cannot be a soldier.

I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony.

There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it

To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.

Here is true immorality: ignorance and stupidity; the devil is nothing but this. His name is Legion.

If God can help us locate demands, He can also help us locate the leaks.

Free-market capitalism is a network of free and voluntary exchanges in which producers work, produce, and exchange their products for the products of others through prices voluntarily arrived at.

Men are good but women are magic.

In this horror of solitude, this need to lose his ego in exterior flesh, which man calls grandly the need for love.

I don't think they'd ever make a movie about Chuck Baker but I'd love to play Chuck Baker

The U.S. victory in Gulf War was a stirring victory for the forces of aggression.

I think the most important thing for an actor is to stay current and stay relevant, and those are probably the hardest things to do.

I think anything that anyone writes thats any good is going to have a lot of autobiography.

Part of maintaining a thriving creative culture is giving people time and permission to play.