What if I am, in some way, only a sophisticated fire that has acquired an ability to regulate its rate of combustion and to hoard its fuel in order to see and walk?

If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.

When the human mind exists in the light of reason and no more than reason, we may say with absolute certainty that Man and all that made him will be in that instant gone.

It has been said repeatedly that one can never, try as he will, get around to the front of the universe. Man is destined to see only its far side, to realize nature only in retreat.

If it should turn out that we have mishandled our own lives as several civilizations before us have done, it seems a pity that we should involve the violet and the tree frog in our departure.

The great artist, whether he be musician, painter, or poet, is known for this absolute unexpectedness.

It is a commonplace of all religious thought, even the most primitive, that the man seeking visions and insight must go apart from his fellows and love for a time in the wilderness.

The journey is difficult, immense. We will travel as far as we can, but we cannot in one lifetime see all that we would like to see or to learn all that we hunger to know.

Each one of us is a statistical impossibility around which hover a million other lives that were never destined to be born.

We cannot pluck a flower witout disturbing a star.

It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man.

To know someone, we must experience him, and that knowing will not exceed our self-knowledge—we cannot know someone else to a greater depth than we know ourselves.

'Umble we are 'umble we have been 'umble we shall ever be.

I wouldn’t say I’ve become more radical: I was born radical.

Nothing clears up a case so much as stating it to another person.

Younger workers should have more freedom to build their retirement nest egg.

Being an artist is celebrating life.

I moved to Hollywood when I was 18. I never saw it as a disadvantage in any way. Quite the opposite.

Zhang is a friend of mine: he said forget about acting and just do normal things in the movie.

Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.

I didn't teach you that. Catch the ball with your glove.