Writing sharpens life

blindness is a private matter between a person and the eyes with which he or she was born.

Ideas have enormous consequences in a person's life because you ultimately become what you believe.

Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.

Any man worth his salt has by the time he is forty-five accumulated a crown of thorns, and the problem is to learn to wear it over one ear.

You should have a dream and absolutely go for it. Don't let anybody say you can't do it.

Shareholders have the right and obligation to set the parameters of corporate behavior within which management pursues profit.

My goal is to make as many films as possible about different aspects of American life.

It is the struggle itself that is most important. We must strive to be more than we are. It does not matter that we will not reach our ultimate goal. The effort itself yields its own reward.

If you're ever in doubt, throw a pepper in the air. If it fails to come down, you have gone mad, so don't trust in anything.

I believe that intelligence and rationality will always be primary no matter what shape sentient creatures take. To not think that would be to doubt the value of life itself.