We bestow on others praise in which we do not believe, on condition that in return they bestow upon us praise in which we do.

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.

Live from a place of love. It conquers all that is evil.

.the fire can heal. Somebody needs to see the light, somebody needs to feel the heat. Burn..

Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.

You see someone like maybe William Eggleston. William doesn't even really talk about what he does; he just wants to make these images. He kind of hovers around a location and extracts these images.

I'm a long-term optimist, and I don't think the problems with our society are from being overly optimistic.

If you look to others for fulfillment, you will never be truly fulfilled.

Science is a particular way of thinking about things.

If you're sick, watch funny movies.

I have a feeling of reverence about my father being in his 80s - a feeling that I want to whisper, take soft steps, not intrude too much. He's like a stately old cathedral to me now.

Everytime you put an album out with any producer you do the same thing.