We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands on himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself.

Rancor is an outpouring of a feeling of inferiority.

We need to study the whole of history, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.

The type of human being we prefer reveals the contours of our heart.

Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.

Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are.

Life is a series of collisions with the future.

I am I plus my surroundings; and if I do not preserve the latter, I do not preserve myself.

An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.

To wonder is to begin to understand.

Being an artist means ceasing to take seriously that very serious person we are when we are not an artist.

I was born not to die but to live and never born.

Chemistry has energy and it's meant to be felt.

It's better to bet on this life than on the next.

I had the great fortune to actually become friends with Sam [Fuller] and ultimately collaborate with him on White Dog, which we wrote together.

Color has always evoked emotion for me: visually, internally, emotionally.

I see ranks ready for battle, stretching out. Five, six horses across, ranks in formation. Endlessly.

If I had means, I would like to spend half a year in Palestine in order to contemplate what has been, and half a year in Poland in order to preserve what remains.

It matters little whether a man be mathematically or philologically or artistically cultivated, so he be but cultivated.

Take a sip from the cup of death... And when you're shaking my right hand, I'll stab you with the left.

It takes as much discipline to be a mother and a wife as it does to do anything else.