The shame of being a man - is there any better reason to write?

A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.

A creator is someone who creates their own impossibilities, and thereby creates possibilities.

Art is not communicative, art is not reflexive. Art, science, philosophy are neither contemplative, neither reflexive, nor communicative. They are creative, that's all.

Intuition is neither a feeling, an inspiration nor a disorderly sympathy but a fully developed method.

Underneath all reason lies delirium and drift.

Images exist; things themselves are images... Images constantly act on and react to one another, produce and consume. There is no difference between images, things and movement.

Writing has nothing to do with meaning. It has to do with landsurveying and cartography, including the mapping of countries yet to come.

It's not easy to see things from the middle, rather than looking down on them from above or up at them from below, or from left to right or right to left: try it, you'll see that everything changes.

A tyrant institutionalises stupidity, but he is the first servant of his own system and the first to be installed within it.

Write, form a rhizome, increase your territory by deterritorialization, extend the line of flight to the point where it becomes an abstract machine covering the entire plane of consistency.

Are you sure this is a good idea?’ I ask.‘No, ’ says Amber. ‘Let’s do it.

It's August, which means Congress is on recess and Mitch McConnell has shimmied back into the ocean to seek a mate.

In our quest for peace, we should constantly ask ourselves what we should do to create conditions in which peace can prosper.

I've never read a script that I've loved equally and differently to the book.

Actually, if you take the average American, and studies have shown that, he is really concerned only with private affairs; that is to say, with his health, his money and family affairs.

It's just an impulse, in some actors. You want to make the audience like you. That's the aim of the exercise.

It is always legitimate to wish to rise above one's self, never above others.

It seems to be unfathomable to people that I just happen to be 49 and look good. I am totally capable of accepting myself.

You must be passionate, you must dedicate yourself, and you must be relentless in the pursuit of your goals. If you do, you will be successful.

Some of us are sixty feet long with a brain the size of a walnut.