There are things that don't deserve to be said briefly.

Somebody told me I should put a pebble in my mouth to cure my stuttering. Well, I tried it, and during a scene I swallowed the pebble. That was the end of that.

A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins to pour in.

We spend our time envying people whom we wouldn't wish to be.

My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists.

Kill one man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill them all, and you are a god.

Kill one man, and you are murderer.

Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.

To be adult is to be alone.

A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.

In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.

When we have to make a list of exceptions to apply a model of womanhood, it is good to ask whether that model holds much meaning.

Someone told me that when they go to Vermont, they feel like they're home. I'm that way at Saks.

I think the grotesque can inspire intimacy (it draws us in) as well as awe, like the cabinets of curiosities.

Get out on the stage of life.

Football combines the two worst things about America: it is violence punctuated by committee meetings.

The most exciting rock 'n' roll band of the last 50 years who are still on the road today

If you come across illegal aliens committing crimes, other crimes, you deport them.

In New York, they understood that my country was not a country, but winter. And that my road was not really a road, but snow.

Are you on drugs?" "No." "Maybe you should be.

If you are at first lonely, be patient. If you've not been alone much, or if when you were, you weren't okay with it, then just wait. You'll find it's fine to be alone once you're embracing it.