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

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.

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

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.

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.

...[T]he United States is the land of formal democratic enclosure...

I don't know if I know anyone, with the exception of the early inventors of rock music [who wasn't influenced by something].

You know, it's not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself.

How is it possible that Courtney Love looks worse than Kurt Cobain?

We are opening up an enormous new era in archaeology. Time capsules in the deep oceans.

They say ya additude determines ya laditude.

It occurred to me, when I was old enough to make rules of my own, that they should be fair and simple.

If there wasn't no fight, there wasn't no weekend.

I'm a believer in fate and in fulfilling your destiny. I've always had a kind of inner voice that I have learned to listen to.

There's a story behind every person. There's a reason why they're the way they are. Think about that before you judge anyone.