The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.

Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.

Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to.

War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other.

A poem is never finished, only abandoned.

Nothing beautiful can be summarized.

The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect.

A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.

Love is being stupid together.

Let us enrich ourselves with our mutual differences.

Sometimes I think, sometimes I am .

The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.

Grown-ups have developed an unpleasant habit of comforting themselves for their degradation by pretending that children are childish.

I always wanted to be a farmer. There is a tradition of that in my family.

Soon I realized that if beauty equalled forgiveness, I was never going to be forgiven.

A master of improvised speech and improvised policies.

Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.

Time is a blooming field: nature is ever teeming with life: and all is seed, and all is fruit.

I don't know, I'll probably make the first superhero movie that bombs.

The transfiguration of matter occurs through wonder.

I like companies that try and break away from the norm.