Furious and wild with fear, the potatoes flailed the air with their leaves and stamped their roots, but obviously this got them nowhere.

If a man who can’t count finds a four leaf clover, is he lucky?

Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible.

I never read to kill time. Killing time is like killing someone's wife or a child. There is nothing more precious for me than time.

To torture a man you have to know his pleasures.

...it is easy not to believe in monsters, considerably more difficult to escape their dread and loathsome clutches.

The horse respects and obeys man because its large eyes magnify everything, so man appears much larger than the horse itself.

We don't want to conquer the cosmos, we simply want to extend the boundaries of Earth to the frontiers of the cosmos.

And yet we knew, for a certainty, that when first emissaries of Earth went walking among the planets, Earth's other sons would be dreaming not about such expeditions but about a piece of bread.

Is a mountain only a huge stone? Is a planet an enormous mountain?

I felt myself being invaded through and through, I crumbled, disintegrated, and only emptiness remained.

I'm not a Christian, but I have read his book.

People get very creative if you include them.

Don't be afraid to ask people 'why,' 'what if.' Don't be afraid to attack your career. Get in the game, don't stay on the sidelines.

The future may be an enemy. Time can turn happy days and nights into nothing.

If we believe that the sun and moon hang in the sky for our delight, there will be joy upon the hills and gladness in the fields.

One person's crazy is another person's sane, I guess.

Now I'm doing a film festival for kids and writing a script about a kidnapped journalist in Afghanistan.

Treat your friend as a spectacle.

Potentially, America is really the greatest, but it's not yet, I don't think. It's too much like an old-fashioned empire, waving the stick and dropping too many bombs on too many people.

Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.