True ideas seem to suffer from repetition, while stupid ones tend to flourish.

Facts, like living things, have a value in and of themselves and demand respect. Yet some people use them as means to an end, and dismiss them as soon as they are done using them.

A thousand truths can be assembled in such a way as to create a colossal lie.

As time and space are bent by gravity, so too is truth bent by power.

You may never live long enough to discover who you are, but by the time you reach middle age you will hopefully realize who you are not.

Technology has not made humanity any wiser, it has only made us more dangerous.

Sometimes you come to realize you understand something but you can’t explain it to anyone, not even yourself. This is perhaps the most sacred kind of understanding.

There is no greater thing than to be oneself, and it is never too late to do so.

Where there is hope there is life.

Death is the night sky, the background against which the fleeting fireworks of life are displayed, an empty stage upon which the drama of life is played.

Science is the process of obscuring the marvelous with explanations.

There are two means of refuge from the misery of life — music and cats.

Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.

Lxnig sentences in a short composition are like large rooms in a little house.

My husband has no desire to work with me. He gets paid a lot of money to write giant movies. He's not into humoring me with my projects.

I tell people, 'If you want to send a message to the White House, call my house.

All other love is extinguished by self-love; beneficence, humanity, justice, philosophy, sink under it.

I was a barbarian, tender and full of violence. I translated by instinct, without any method, not merely an artistic truth but above all a human one.

How could Hillary clinton not come off as human! I mean, even Nurse Ratched was human. I don't think people are interested in 30 years of the past, and I don't get this notion of change-maker.

Lost is our freedom When we submit to women so: Why do we need 'em When, in their best, they work our woe?

Exaggerated portrayals apparently destroy desire more effectively than any repression.