The faster you go, the idler you get.

Art exists because life is not enough.

Anything I do, I learn about first. I am not in favour of improvisation; I believe in work and in learning

Don't wish it were easier. Wish you were better.

Hope is a strong encouragement.

Love, in its own nature, demands the perfecting of the beloved.

I see myself as an explorer more than a storyteller.

I've never been fired in my life.

If you start with nothing and end up with nothing, there's nothing lost.

The Soviet experience was much worse than experts in the West had thought. That discovery had a tremendous impact both on the intellectual community and on the public at large.

I want to make my life, not just my job, the best it can be. The rest will work itself out.

In ‘life,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my work. In ‘work,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my life.

Think for yourself. Know what you're doing. Question authority.