Wisdom can boast no higher attainment than happiness.

One act of beneficence, one act of real usefulness, is worth all the abstract sentiment in the world.

I never trust people's assertions, I always judge of them by their actions.

To a generous mind few circumstances are more afflicting than a discovery of perfidy in those whom we have trusted.

How strange it is, that a fool or knave, with riches, should be treated with more respect by the world, than a good man, or a wise man in poverty!

Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

There is no accounting for tastes.

When one can hear people moving, one does not so much mind, about one's fears.

There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Never will I give my hand where my heart does not accompany it.

Employment is the surest antidote to sorrow.

A ‘biomass’ man is not deeply analyzing things to draw a meaningful conclusions

I sort of like writing about weird characters, I guess.

The following sentence is false. The preceding sentence is true.

I have the honesty to say I'm an Atheist. There is nothing that supports the idea of a personal God.

When you do a film, you start to get the character, and then it disappears for a year before it's released and you get feedback.

For better or for worse, I've watched people die in front of me. I see how they are in the end. And they're not cynical. In the end, they wanna hold somebody's hand. And that's real to me.

I have programmed myself to be at least 105 years old.

The movie adaptations of stage musicals that I've seen, without exception, in my opinion don't work. A lot of people would disagree with me.

My mind is turning into kind of a fine gelatinous ball of pepper

We do not learn first what to talk about and then what to say about it.