Behind every mask there is a face, and behind that a story.

One is never wounded by the love one gives, only by the love one expects.

The slope contains many wonders not found at the summit.

Philosophers console themselves with explanations.

The search for first causes is the ultimate wild goose chase.

When you separate thought from life, you get philosophy.

Logical positivism is philosophy from the neck up.

The questions philosophers ask are not so much meaningless as irrelevant.

No explanation is ever as good as not having one.

The truth is what you live through while you're looking for the truth.

Never confuse a hunger for knowledge with a thirst for truth.

Thinking sure could get a fellow in a lot of trouble. Almost as much as opening his big gabber and sticking his muddy foot in it.

It is only the rooms of the present I wish to inhabit.

A rich person is just a poor person with a crown and elaborate clothing, and a poor person is just a rich person with a crownless head and ragged clothing.

We cannot put cinema in parallel with the political, because politics are something dirty and cinema is not dirty.

It went beyond idealism and that ridiculous term "activism," which basically means talking about something but doing nothing. . . . We made giving exciting.

As a child, I was a clown. I didn't hesitate to make a fool of myself and I would love to completely take on wacky characters.

The individualists stare into each other's eyes and yet deny the existence of each other.

Well, Joe Biden has done it again. He showed up at the White House Passover Seder with a bunch of ham sandwiches.

The pain itself is a product or a reflection of how I am interpreting whatever it is that is causing me pain.

Success is the consequence of first having dreams and then acting upon them.