The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.

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.

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

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.

Today, John Kerry announced a fool-proof plan to wipe out the $500B deficit. John Kerry has a plan, he's going to put it on his wife's Gold Card.

A best-seller was a book which somehow sold well because it was selling well.

Fiction is open to whoever comes in the door, as long as you come in energetically.

Nothing is quite as satisfying and exhausting as teaching.

I didn't start to be an artist myself until I was 24.

Let goodness go with the doing.

The Eucharist is the heart of the Church. Where Eucharistic life flourishes, there the life of the church will blossom.

I never looked around me because it might freak me out, because if you're up on a mountain you don't wanna like, look down.

Usually I'm thinking about the palette. I'm thinking about the color for the most part, then I'll start thinking about composition and movement.

Because television doesn't offer the kind of budget that a movie offers, you've got to be a little more careful where you spend the money to put the fiction in science.