Eve was not a born know-all. She was ignorant. But she was a good learner.

Whether or not it is ultimately the best of all conceivable scripts for Korean, Hangeul must unquestionably rank as one of the great intellectual achievements of humankind.

To my mind by far the greatest danger in scholarship...is not that the individual may fail to master the thought of a school but that a school may succeed in mastering the thought of the individual.

We talk so abstractly about poetry because all of us are usually bad poets.

I don't think about Hollywood at all.

[T]he appropriate form of address between man and man ought to be, not monsieur, sir, but fellow sufferer, compagnon de miseres.

Being unique is what's cool. Normal? What's normal? A setting on a washing machine. No one wants to be that.

I'm a gear head. I love gear. If I have the choice, of course I'd rather use a great microphone, a Neumann microphone and a vintage Neve board.

Baseball is very big at the present time. This makes me think baseball will live longer than Casey Stengel or anybody else.

I have a younger brother.

To do someone else's script? I don't think I'd have a reason.

The good nail will do its job regardless what kind of hammer comes its way and what kind of surface it sits on.

I will see it when I believe it.