If you go too fast you might not notice everything. On the other hand, you don't want to be late.

My workspace is defined by books, ephemera, quiet and light. I don't have a computer, telephone or a fax machine there.

What protects you in this world from sadness and from the loss of an ability to do something? ... Work and love.

Everyone I know is looking for solace, hope and a tasty snack.

A visit to a museum is a search for beauty, truth, and meaning in our lives. Go to museums as often as you can.

Flowers lead to books, which lead to thinking and not thinking and then more flowers and music, music. Then many more flowers and many more books.

I like the brooding man - a brooding man with a sense of humor.

if something does go wrong, here is my advice... KEEP CALM and CARRY ON.

Go out and walk. That is the glory of life.

In any work you do, you can be profound one minute, and then you be superficial the next, and you can be smart and insightful and then insipid. There can be room for all that.

Wonderful things happen when your brain is empty.

No truth, no light.

As an act of goodwill you must sacrifice all the futures you might have for the one that he designs for you.

The secret of secrets is inside me again.

She writhes under her life. A woman more angry, passionate, reckless, and revengeful never lived.

The Age of Reason was responsible for making more people into infidels than any other book except the Bible.

You must work, we must all work, to make the world worthy of its children.

Man is the measure of all things, of things that are that they are, and of things that are not that they are not.

You and I have a rendevous with destiny.

The first really important book I read about filmmaking was The Film Technique by Pudovkin. This was some time before I had ever touched a movie camera and it opened my eyes to cutting and montage.

Far less envy in America than in France.