My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists.

Somebody told me I should put a pebble in my mouth to cure my stuttering. Well, I tried it, and during a scene I swallowed the pebble. That was the end of that.

A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins to pour in.

We spend our time envying people whom we wouldn't wish to be.

Kill one man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill them all, and you are a god.

Kill one man, and you are murderer.

Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.

To be adult is to be alone.

A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.

In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.

When I was young I pitied the old. Now old, it is the young I pity.

Stage fright is very common and could be overcomed through step by step processes, but stuttering is a fright that takes time to conquer.

Fall in love with a weird one - someone not quite right in the head - life is far more interesting when love is odd

LSD is a psychedelic drug which occasionally causes psychotic behavior in people who have NOT taken it.

Anything that makes you laugh, giggle or smile.. Do it again..

Stress and sleep deprivation had a funny way of liberating the mind from previously held truisms, replacing them with a more compliant desperation.

Every true American likes to think in terms of thousands and millions. The word 'million' is probably the most pleasure-giving vocable in the language.

There is a gulf between the high value Americans put on life in theory and its cheapness in practice.

I think the media's the kind of thing where the truth doesn't win, because it's no fun. The truth's no fun.

I don't buy stocks, I make stocks.

If you can't categorize a film for a studio, it's really difficult for them to wrap their heads around it and give you the money.