What makes our opponents useful is that they allow us to believe that without them we would be able to realize our goals.

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.

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

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.

People will treat you unkindly at times. Forgive them always.

If you want a baby have a new one. Don't baby the old one.

The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.

Everybody wants to get enlightened but nobody wants to change.

I never get sick of writing my own stories because there's a certain comfort in knowing you will never run out of material. It's relaxing, actually, to write.

I don't think makeup is rocket science or a cure for cancer.

Inner freedom demands the rejection of any imposition that injures our dignity.

For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment.

On the sixth day, God created the artist, realizing no doubt that He had far from exhausted the uses of color.