If millions are born millions must die.

Seagulls . . . slim yachts of the element.

Meteors are not needed less than mountains: shine, perishing republic.

Imagination, the traitor of the mind, has taken my solitude and slain it.

You making haste on decay: not blameworthy; life is good, be it stubbornly long or suddenly A mortal splendor: meteors are not needed less than mountains: shine, perishing republic.

Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us.

It is only a little planet, but how beautiful it is.

Long live freedom and damn the ideologies.

A little too abstract, a little too wise, It is time for us to kiss the earth again, It is time to let the leaves rain from the skies, Let the rich life run to the roots again.

Still the mind smiles at its own rebellions.

Poetry is not a civilizer, rather the reverse, for great poetry appeals to the most primitive instincts.

The density of your destiny is the product of the mass of your visions and the volume your impacts occupy!

Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.

There's a lot of things you can't control. But you can always be a pro.

I have survived two wars, two wives and Hitler.

Above all, I would not expect a wise race, at great expense, to set loose an army of self-replicating robots.

If we were able to live at the level of the soul all the time, there would be no need for hindsight to appreciate the great truths of life.

I am opposed to socialism because it dreams ingenuously of good, truth, beauty, and equal rights.

I don't think there have been many alien movies where the actors have actually seen the aliens.

Without the potatoe, the balance of European power might never have tilted north

It's hard to see a film one time and really "get it," and write fully and intelligently about it. That's a review. That's not film criticism.