We spend our time envying people whom we wouldn't wish to be.

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.

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.

When I was young I pitied the old. Now old, it is the young I pity.

There is not only the present, but there is a future waiting for us as well

When you discover your gift and develop it, the world will start looking for you

The man she wanted existed only in the romantic novels she was reading. She had met him. But he would never meet her.

Architecture is a art when one consciously or unconsciously creates aesthetic emotion in the atmosphere and when this environment produces well being.

She turned and looked at him. "Ducks?" she said again. A smile tugged the edge of his mouth. "I hate ducks. Don't know why. I just always have.

The Universe is the most extraordinary masterpiece ever constructed by nobody.

I just lay in my room for days ... weeks.

When you are developing a character you have to bring so much of yourself to the role.

It really is the year 2007. Which means I must be... Oh my God. I'm twenty-eight. I'm old.

And I watered it in fears, Night and morning with my tears; And I sunned it with smiles, And with soft deceitful wiles.