Pain is a poison; pleasure an intoxicant.

God is a philosophical black hole-the point where reason breaks down.

The angel within me thrives on the devil within me.

The final discovery is the discovery of knowledge.

The world is truly beautiful solely in the eyes of a true philosopher.

If knowledge is my God, doubt would be my religion.

It is human to search for the theory of everything and it is superhuman to find it.

Certainty is the most vivid condition of ignorance and the most necessay condition for knowledge.

The meaning of life is 'the ultimate questioner's vanity.'

Professionalism is nothing but a crude insistance on the mechanization of mankind.

The stem of greatness sprouts from the seed of sacrifice.

Today we have made a fetish of choice

At some point, you have an opportunity to not be a first-time filmmaker anymore. You can embrace the genre and show the world how you can tell stories on a bigger scale.

The habits of a young man are, like his coat, removable; the habits of an old man are like the drapery of a statue.

Here [in Wonder Boys] I had this group of characters where you didn't know which were the important ones or what direction they were heading.

It is not easy always to be joyful, to keep in mind the duty of delight.

[The human control of atomic energy could] virtually provide anyone who wanted it with a private sun of his own.

I wouldn't take up arms. I think that might be a little extreme.

Love eliminates fear. Love eliminates anxiety.

There is a fruit of the Spirit that must accompany the gift of healing and that is longsuffering.

Good writing has an aliveness that keeps the reader reading from one paragraph to the next, and it's not a question of gimmicks to "personalize" the author.