The highest good and solely useful is liberal education.

Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos.

Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found in the philosopher.

Aphorisms are the true form of the universal philosophy.

Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet; especially not against their poetry.

Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science.

Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.

Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation.

The main thing is to know something and to say it.

When reason and unreason come into contact, an electrical shock occurs. This is called polemics.

A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only the truth of an allegory.

The objective for each individual when you are pulled over by an officer of the law is to - Survive the Stop!

The bigger the corporation, the bigger the corruption. The more invisible the corporation, the more malicious it is.

I would much prefer that they take me as I am, that way the experience is genuine between the both of us.

I don't do films because they tell a particular kind of story, I do films with stories that touch me.

Few are guilty, but all are responsible.

I am 46, and have been for some time past.

I am! I have come through! I belong!

There was a price to be paid for being interested in fiction and in writing, pushing my family away. Books and authors became my family.

O my God, how true it is that we may have of Thy gifts and yet may be full of ourselves!

I hate being looked at. Can't stand it. I know, I know - I picked the wrong career.