To be adult is to be alone (etre adulte c'est etre seul).

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.

Since God is truth, a contempt for truth is equally a contempt for God.

Imagination is like a muscle. I found out that the more I wrote, the bigger it got.

Let me go!” I screamed, but it was a wasted effort. Dean was determined to hold me. Determined never to lose his grip.“I’m never going to let you go again.

I lost twins at 14 weeks, and I had to have an D and C on my birthday.

What dire offence from am'rous causes springs, What mighty contests rise from trivial things.

Christine O'Donnell released a commercial in which she says, 'I'm not a witch.' That's pretty good, though not as effective as her opponent's slogan, 'I'm not Christine O'Donnell.'

I don't need to work right away. I'd rather wait for something really good; to be excited about a role, or a director, or a project.

See shades of grey... Act anyway

My comedy notebooks are filled with random journal entries. It's all the same. I can look back on old joke notebooks, and know exactly what was going on in my life.

There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.