For God and for the future generations.

Great work is not created for everyone. If it were, it would be average work.

Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.

God, I'd love to do a big commercial movie that made a lot of money and whose plot was interesting too.

The symbol in the dream has more the value of a parable: it does not conceal, it teaches.

Man only of all earthly creatures, asks, Can the dead die forever? - and the instinct that urges the question is God's answer to man, for no instinct is given in vain.

Let no man trust the first false step of guilt; it hangs upon a precipice, whose steep descent in last perdition ends.

On Creating — What we crave, what we want to see in others eyes, is that servile expression, an unconcealed infatuation with our gestures.

We're far more defined by our mistakes than the things that we succeed at.

It is difficult to preach, this morality of mediocrity! It may never admit what it is and what it wants! It must speak about restraint and worth and duty and love of one's neighbor.

Animals are in possession of themselves; their soul is in possession of their body. But they have no right to their life, because they do not will it.