Anyone who's not interested in model airplanes must have a screw loose somewhere.

The only dumb question is the question you don't ask.

The problem is we don't understand the problem.

We're short on wisdom; we're high on technology. Where's it going to lead?

Your grandchildren will likely find it incredible - or even sinful - that you burned up a gallon of gasoline to fetch a pack of cigarettes!

I'm more interested in a world that works than what sells.

The surviving intelligent life form on Earth is not going to be carbon-based; it's going to be silicon-based.

Solitude is the canvas of a thinking mind.

I remember all the things we said we'd doAnd how not a single thing we said was true

The best educated human being is the one who understands most about the life in which he is placed.

We mortals hear only the news, and know nothing at all.

I want to reach the status of becoming a mogul. And the only way you get there is by work.

The sage does not act and therefore does not fail, does not seize and therefore does not lose.

Health can be squandered, but not stored up.

I really have paid my dues! When I get to stay in fancy hotel suites these days I remind myself of that.

In a spiritually sensitive culture, then, it might well be that age is something to be admired or envied.

We [with Marjane Satrapi] both have very strong personalities, but that's completely normal, because even if you're very well prepared, you never know when you shoot live action.