One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived.

There is iconoclasm in the excessively intellectual, and they delight in destroying their dearest moral or sentimental idols, the better to prove their strength.

We must live as we think, otherwise we shall end up by thinking as we have lived.

There are conditions of blindness so voluntary that they become complicity.

Unhappiness indicates wrong thinking; just as ill health indicates a bad regimen.

Ideas are to literature what light is to painting.

There is only one way to be happy by means of the heart: not to have one.

Flirting is the sin of the virtuous and the virtue of the sinful.

There is no such thing as an age for love ... because the man capable of loving - in the complex and modern sense of love as a sort of ideal exaltation - never ceases to love.

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

At certain moments, words are nothing; it is the tone in which they are uttered.

In reality the universe has no geometry.

The public doesn't want new music the main thing that it demands of a composer is that he be dead.

Walls work both ways. They keep people out...but they keep people in, too.

I want to do my Blade Runner, which is like a future Berlin film, which is like a thriller, but it's much deeper characters, I think.

Don't worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don't even try.

What great executives do is not magic. Their performance is made possible by specific, identifiable skills.

Do a good job on a good film and you're on the map. Do a great job on a bad movie and not very many people will think of you.

Christians have no business moping around.

Dying young is the easy way out. It's much harder to keep your edge and keep it going.

I'm pleased it turned out the way that it did, because I know lots of other people who did fantastic work and did not see this particular kind of recognition [like Emmy].