A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man.

Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.

For the myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless schema, the pious formula into which life flows when it reproduces its traits out of the unconscious.

Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.

Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.

Stupid — well, there are so many kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.

Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.

War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius.

A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.

Truth is stranger than fiction because lies are much more convincing but the truth always comes out no matter how long it takes.

If you know the road is steepy with many potholes and curves ahead, you will be informed to drive the car at a required speed. Knowledge is a guide you need to make choices in life.

Define yourself. Define your passion.Define your success.

Really? We are being herded on a bus to drive across town to an all-boy academy where we disembark and join our lonely counterparts on a dance floor. Sounds like a scorecard situation to me.

We cherish the chance to say thank you in person to Cpl. Frank Buckles.

The first revolution is when you change your mind

Whatever the job is, we can do it. Thats why the nation has a Marine Corps.

The object of pure Physic[s] is the unfolding of the laws of the intelligible world; the object of pure Mathematic[s] that of unfolding the laws of human intelligence.

I love working with Lars [von Trier]! I've worked with him three times. I did the narration of Dogville and Manderlay.

Learn about the incorruptible King, and know his heroes who never inflict slaughter on the peoples.