My subordinates followed my orders.

I miss your silent stature, your avoided days of disaster, your present state of distress.I’m cinnamon, cloves and fire, you are the rested cedarwood of desire.

And not only the pride of intellect, but the stupidity of intellect. And, above all, the dishonesty, yes, the dishonesty of intellect. Yes, indeed, the dishonesty and trickery of intellect.

Love and laughter are two of the most important universal cancer treatments on the planet. Overdose on them.

I'm not stingy. I'm just afraid of being an easy mark. People wouldn't have money long if they didn't ask how much things cost.

A healthy nation is as unconscious of its nationality as a healthy man of his bones. But if you break a person's nationality it will think of nothing else but getting it set again.

Eventually, the nerds and the geeks will have their day.

If I have any talent at all, it is not for doing but for being.

Genuine asceticism for finding one's own soul and for the good of humanity is worthy of reverence.

I don't pretend anything anymore. I don't have time, desire or energy to calculate anymore.

Making movies, you're like an independent contractor - you come in, you have a specific job, and a lot of what you do is completely manipulated, which is good and bad.