No code of ethics and no effort are justifiable a priori in the face of the cruel mathematics that command our condition.

Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

Life is meaningless, but worth living, provided you recognize it's meaningless.

Whoever gives nothing, has nothing. The greatest misfortune is not to be unloved, but not to love.

Life is a sum of all your choices". So, what are you doing today?

The Four Conditions of Happiness: Life in the open air, Love for another being,Freedom from ambition,Creation

You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?

I know of only one duty, and that is to love.

You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.

If you have to beg someone to love you, then you have absolutely no business with that person.

Writing only leads to more writing.

No one plants rosebushes for the thorns.

Yeah, I'm a vegetarian - but still, some things are just nasty. I like salads. But sometimes, they get too creative. I like regular food, just no meat in it.

With the Ford Foundation grant all of a sudden instead of being an artist that had made a couple of short films, I became a filmmaker who dabbled in the arts.

Having once found the intensity of art, nothing else that can happen in life can ever again seem as important as the creative process.

I had a great interest in sports. I had three older brothers who were great athletes. I was not.

Everyone had an opinion and no one had a solution.

To kill [children in the womb] makes us all the poorer, insensitive, calloused and jaded.

Oh God! that one might read the book of fate, And see the revolution of the times Make mountains level, and the continent, Weary of solid firmness, melt itself Into the sea.