Few men think, yet all will have opinions.

All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth - in a word, all those bodies which compose the frame of the world - have not any subsistence without a mind.

To be is to be perceived (Esse est percipi)." Or, "If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?

Truth is the cry of all, but the game of few.

It is impossible that a man who is false to his friends and neighbours should be true to the public.

The world is like a board with holes in it, and the square men have got into the round holes, and the round into the square.

I had rather be an oyster than a man, the most stupid and senseless of animals.

That thing of hell and eternal punishment is the most absurd, as well as the most disagreeable thought that ever entered into the head of mortal man.

A ray of imagination or of wisdom may enlighten the universe, and glow into remotest centuries.

So long as I confine my thoughts to my own ideas divested of words, I do not see how I can be easily mistaken.

Where the people are well educated, the art of piloting a state is best learned from the writings of Plato.

What you read, and what you have watched and what you have listened is just the few from all... You haven't saw everything!?

Why do early risers always take that self-righteous tone?

They, and they only, advantage themselves by travel, who, well fraught with the experience of what their own country affords, carry ever with them large and thriving talents.

[Raymond] Chandler, I reread him, and there's a lot of bad writing there. I don't think he knew much about people.

At a point in every person's life, one has to look deeply into the mirror of one's soul and decide one's unique truth in the world, not as we may want to see it or hope to see it, but as it is.

They always said on TV you could do anything you wanted, but here I was trying to do something and it wasn't working. I would never be able to do it.

There's always some way to find hope. Remember that.

You were born awesome. Please don't die average.

The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.

How would you compare Polanski or Kubrick? I try not to do any comparisons.