The past is just something that's over.

Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique, and not too much imagination.

We must remember that nothing in this world really belongs to us. At best, we are merely borrowers.

Only those who are capable of silliness can be called truly intelligent.

By helping yourself, you are helping humankind. By helping humankind, you are helping yourself. That's the law of all spiritual progress.

Sometimes awful things have their own beauty.

I'll bet Shakespeare compromised himself a lot; anybody who's in the entertainment industry does to some extent.

Bad writing is bad not just because the language is humdrum, but the quality of the observation is so poor.

The sea only drowns its lovers.

I am a camera, with its shutter open. Someday, all of this will be developed, printed, fixed.

Someone has to ask you a question," George continues meaningly, "before you can answer it. But it's so seldom you find anyone who'll ask the right questions. Most people aren't that much interested.

It is possible for leaders or regimes to be cruel, bigoted, twisted in their world views and still make rational calculations with respect to their limits and their self-preservation.

I can wait for film projects without having to do things to live.

Change is all about motion, motion is all about uncertainty and we are deeply uncomfortable with uncertainty.

Second, and far more important: tuck your chin. You're going to get hurt, so expect it and be ready. You may as well see it coming.

The price of meat has just gone up and your old lady has just gone down.

You teach what you know, but you reproduce what you are.

A great scientist is more open to a new idea than almost anybody.

I'm still a mod, I'll always be a mod, you can bury me a mod.

I find that the mask of the critic is to have distance.

Beware of the inclination to dictate to God what consequences you would allow as a condition of your obedience to Him.