Sometimes I think, sometimes I am .

Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.

Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to.

War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other.

A poem is never finished, only abandoned.

Nothing beautiful can be summarized.

The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect.

A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.

Love is being stupid together.

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.

Let us enrich ourselves with our mutual differences.

At times they don't like you to kick them and they feel you're not allowed to kick them.

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.

They say Rome wasn't built in a day, but I wasn't on that particular job.

Mere chance ... alone would never account for so habitual and large an amount of difference as that between varieties of the same species.

Plus, teaching brings home to you very fast that you actually know nothing. I didn't realize that before.

It's too expensive, that's the thing nobody wants to talk about. It is too expensive to make movies. That's not true, it is too expensive to market movies. Making movies is not.

The world is in trouble. Many have prayed. God sent help. God sent you.

Humility bids us to take ourselves as we are; we do not have to be cosmically significant to be genuinely significant.

I joke around sometimes and say that the DP [director of photography] is like a shrink for the director, but there's some truth in there.

Why sunset is more colorful than sunrise? It's an irony of life saying, 'sometimes, good things happen in goodbyes.