Just as King Midas turned everything to gold, Stalin turned everything to mediocrity.

If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?

If a person can build a fence around himself, he is bound to do it.

Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.

...it's only on a black day that you begin to have friends.

We are all human, and our senses are quicker to prompt us than our reason. Every man gives off a scent, and that scent tells you how to act before your head does.

Freedom or prison--what's the difference? A man must develop unwavering will power subject only to his reason.

All history is one continuous pestilence. There is no truth and there is no illusion. There is nowhere to appeal and nowhere to go.

That's why there's a devil—to judge the priests.

The harder life is for a man when he is young, the easier it will be in the future.

College is not important, Knowledge is

If you are gonna wear it, you need to own it.

Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility.

Ever since the movie premiered at Cannes, I've had a sudden surge of scripts and interest.

All men are enemies. All animals are comrades

We learn by rearranging what we know.

If everything was going smoothly you would never build character.

I'm sure clubs have a lot of power these days.

When I was young I wanted to be a gymnast. I used to compete at it, but then I grew too tall.

My body was braille for the creeping influences.