Time is a rigid, bonelike structure, extending infinitely ahead and behind, fossilizing the future as well as the past.

The world is moving faster and faster, but where are we going?I think one of the reasons why things are getting blurry is because there is not much meaning.

If a person holds no ambitions in this world, he suffers unknowingly. If a person holds ambitions, he suffers knowingly, but very slowly.

We live in a highly polarized society. We need to try to understand each other in respectful ways. To that end, I believe that we should make room for both spiritual atheists and thinking believers.

-But rational thoughts lead only to rational thoughts, whereas irrational thoughts lead to new experiences.

All writers have roots they draw from - travel, work, family. My roots are in science and it is fertile ground for fiction.

The urge to discover, to invent, to know the unknown, seems so deeply human that we cannot imagine our history without it.

Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum.

While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back.

Everyone shares the same fate.

The world is moving faster and faster, but where are we going?

When I hear that people live by the book, I always wonder which one.

I go to the movies because – I like adventure. Adventure is something I don’t have much of at work, so I go to the movies.

Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important.

...am so deeply impressed with the fair mindedness and tolerance of the American people...

Where there is less pain, there is also less pay.

[Putin] is a bully. And bullies only understand when we punch them in the nose, but we need to do that economically.

Proclaiming a sexual preference is something that straight men never really have to bother with.

The number of guests at dinner should not be less than the number of the Graces nor exceed that of the Muses, i.e., it should begin with three and stop at nine.

The Prince was written by Machiavelli for the Haves on how to hold power. Rules for Radicals is written for the Have-Nots on how to take it away.

Whether it's making a film or raising my children, personally I'm striving to do the right things and to learn.