Welcome to the information age. Data, data, everywhere, but no one knows a thing.

We have all of us to some extent become inured to a culture where viciousness and depravity are simply taken for granted, like some hideous wallpaper we have lived with for years.

Intelligence, like fire, is a power that is neither good nor bad in itself but rather takes its virtue, its moral coloring, from its application.

Our complexity is much more likely to lead us astray than any simplicity we may follow.

There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-

People forget history nowadays, that is what the ego does, making one the prisoner of one's inflated present, ignoring the humble past one had lived.

Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!

Empathy is the wellspring of creativity.

But I had not the strength nor the inclination to bandy words with a drunkard. What have you done when you have bested a fool?

When you nurse a grudge it is not good for your health.

All the stars that never were are parking cars and pumping gas.

Dessert without cheese is like a beauty with only one eye

The conception, composition, practice, and performance of a piece of music can blossom in a single moment.

Truth is, generally I like film festivals; somewhere at some level there's an exchange of ideas.