Nothing to be done really about animals. Anything you do looks foolish. The answer isn't in us. It's almost as if were put here on earth to show how silly they aren't.

There must be a lot of people in the world being wondered about by people who don't see them anymore.

Language is an archaeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history.

After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak the same language?

Words have a life; without response they die.

But when I don't smoke I scarcely feel as if I'm living. I don't feel as if I'm living unless I'm killing myself.

When you suffer an attack of nerves you're being attacked by the nervous system. What chance has a man got against a system?.

The things that matter don't necessarily make sense.

Explorers have to be ready to die lost.

An idea is an eye given by God for the seeing of God. Some of these eyes we cannot bear to look out of; we blind them as quickly as possible.

And now it seems she's on my wavelength. That's all I need. My mind isn't much of a comfort to me but at least I thought it was private.

In short, it became possible - never easy, but possible - in the poet Auden's phrase to find the mortal world enough.

Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons, a possession for all eternity.

The stuff about film being a collaborative medium is no joke.

Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough.

Life is hard but being stupid makes it harder.

In my view, there's no doubt that the Soviets had infinitely greater trouble holding their structure together than we did.

Kenny Norton hit me so hard that it still hurts. Now there was a case of two fighters who did not like each other.

Sometimes the coaches tell me to be selfish, but my game won't let me be selfish.

I get a lot of return business. I think it's all those years I put in traveling around the country; people saw me before and had a good time so they want to see me again.

Thy peace shall be in much patience.