Truth is in all things, even partly, in error.

He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch.

A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order.

Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.

Objects exist and if one pays more attention to them than to people, it is precisely because they exist more than the people. Dead objects are still alive. Living people are often already dead.

People like to say, 'What do you mean exactly?' I would answer, 'I mean, but not exactly.'

I don't think you should feel about a film. You should feel about a woman, not a movie. You can't kiss a movie.

Photography is truth...and cinema is truth 24 times a second.

To live in society today is like living in one enormous comic-strip.

"Away, away," says hate. "Closer, closer," says love.

Killing a man in defense of an idea is not defending an idea; it is killing a man.

When you can write music that endures, bravo. Until then, keep quiet and study the work of those who can.

Your mind can be either your prison or your palace. What you make it is yours to decide

The phenomenon of economic ignorance is so widespread, and its consequences so frightening, that the objective of reducing that ignorance becomes a goal invested with independent moral worth.

Books are the most mannerly of companions accessible at all times in all moods frankly declaring the author's mind without offense.

Women respond to comfort and a sense of humor. I was always able to make them laugh, so that helps a lot.

Distance does not break off the friendship absolutely, but only the activity of it.

I wanted to be a writer for a while. I was an excellent child writer. I won multiple poetry contests. I was published at age three - I think that was more about novelty than my immense talent.

There was never a golden era of American radio as far as I can tell.

To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs.