You know what? You're an individual, and that makes people nervous. And it's gonna keep making people nervous for the rest of your life.

Harriet never minded admitting she didn't know something. So what, she thought, I could always learn.

I feel there's a funny little hole in me that wasn't there before, like a splinter in your finger, but this is somewhere above my stomach.

Don't mess with anybody on a Monday. It's a bad, bad day.

Gone is gone. I never miss anything or anyone because it all becomes a lovely memory. I guard my memories and love them, but I don't get in them and lie down.

There are as many ways to live as there are people.

Life is a struggle and a good spy gets in there and fights.

If you ever get in real trouble, don't panic. Sit down and think about it. Remember two things, always. There must be some way out of it and there must be humor in it somewhere.

There is no sight so ugly as the human face in anger.

Sometimes you have to lie. But to yourself you must always tell the truth.

It won't do you a bit of good to know everything if you don't do anything with it.

Still, compared to him, compared to the people we descend from, I am free of history. I'm so free of history I have to get in a car and drive seven states to find it.

Take away your eyes from your past failures, current limitations, and future fears. Be hopeful, believe in yourself, be bold, and move on...

Symmetry is pleasing but not as sexy. Einstein is cool but Picasso knows what I'm talking about.

Porsche and BMW drivers are arrogant.

You know how to split atoms, how to send explorers to the moon, how to splice genes, but you don't know how people ought to live.

The role of the infinitely small in nature is infinitely great.

Life itself, however, flows and is sequential and punishes those who try to compartmentalize it.

When two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessarily lie exactly half way between. It is possible for one side simply to be wrong.

Nobody really lives in the present.

Really, I wanted to make a movie [Valley Of Violence] about: How does violence affect people? This is a take from me on how violence affects people.