The more I think about language, the more it amazes me that people ever understand each other at all.

I don't believe in empirical science. I only believe in a priori truth.

Either mathematics is too big for the human mind or the human mind is more than a machine.

I am convinced of the afterlife, independent of theology. If the world is rationally constructed, there must be an afterlife

I like Islam, it is a consistent idea of religion and open-minded.

All generalisations - perhaps except this one - are false.

The meaning of world is the separation of wish and fact.

All generalizations, with the possible exception of this one, are false.

...a consistency proof for [any] system ... can be carried out only by means of modes of inference that are not formalized in the system ... itself.

But every error is due to extraneous factors (such as emotion and education); reason itself does not err.

Nothing new had been done in Logic since Aristotle!

Grace does not contest the powers-that-be through an effective show of verifiable strength but through a persistent and subversive recoding of how one defines what strength and weakness are.

Whatever colors you have in your mind, I'll show them to you and you'll see them shine.

Films are 50 percent visual and 50 percent sound. Sometimes sound even overplays the visual.

The evidence I see tells me the unborn is a human being.

I adapt to directors, I don't like making directors adapt to me. If I'm with Clint Eastwood then I'll do two takes, if I'm with Fincher I'll do 50 - though the thought of that sounds horrible.

The Atkins' diet is where you eat bacon for six or seven months...and the end result is that you lose weight. Because you're dead.

To try to do something which is inherently impossible is always a corrupting enterprise.

Very early on I was interested in doing political art, but it was not feminist political art.

Get them while they're young and bend their minds.

A desperation to escape a problem is the wrong way. A passion to understand it is the right way