Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.

The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.

He has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.

There can be no liberty for a community which lacks the means by which to detect lies.

When all think alike, then no one is thinking

The press does not tell us what to think, it tells us what to think about.

The news and the truth are not the same thing.

The present crisis of Western democracy is a crisis in journalism.

To create a minimum standard of life below which no human being can fall is the most elementary duty of the democratic state.

It is often very illuminating...to ask yourself how you got at the facts on which you base your opinion. Who actually saw, heard, felt, counted, named the thing, about which you have an opinion?

There is something strangely ecstatic, oddly fascinating and infinitely magnetic about unrequited love.

If you are filled with guilt and shame, it's because your heart remembers God but your head seems to have forgotten Him.

Nothing unleashes curiosity in an audience like good storytelling. Nothing inspires storytelling, in turn, like the results of curiosity.

Sometimes I feel like I float in and out of different personalities.

Ask me not what I have, but what I am.

I started crying 20 seconds into the movie and didnt stop till it was over.

The sensitiveness claimed by neurotic is matched by their egotism: they cannot abide the flaunting by others of the sufferings to which they pay an even increasing amount of attention in themselves.

Any take, anything that's recorded while the mic is on, that could be the final take.

Graduate school is a really supportive environment, but in a way, it was only when that support vanished that I flourished.

To make a movie about mayhem, sometimes you have to go to mayhem.