We're very good in America at talking about stuff, often stuff to buy. We tend to talk about our iPods. We tend to talk about cars or new fads.

Computers are to design as microwaves are to cooking.

To design is to communicate clearly by whatever means you can control or master.

Certainty is a closing of the mind. To create something new you must have doubt.

Less isn't more; just enough is more.

The idea of trying able to explain why you do what you do is absurd.

In an age of computer manipulation, surrealism has become banal, a shadow of its former self.

We’re always looking, but we never really see.

If we don't have a vigorous questioning, aggressive journalistic community and mythology, democracy itself is in great jeopardy.

Any failure we could suffer throughout our lives, will turn into little successes if we take the right path, keep walking.

Like trying to keep a fatman out of the refrigerator. 'Lila

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

War is to man what maternity is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace.

There is nothing worth having that can be obtained by nuclear war - nothing material or ideological - no tradition that it can defend. It is utterly self-defeating.

The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.

Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.

The term itself--my life--is a desperate overstatement.

Anybody who cannot learn to hear by feeling will not go very far in church.

If you want to do a film, steal a camera, steal raw stock, sneak into a lab and do it!