There is never a rational reason for a man to rejoice that a certain pretty girl exists and that he has found her. The experience, however, is universal.

Adventure is the point where you toss your life on the scales of chance and wait for the pointer to stop.

Facts are facts! And if they're impossible, they're still facts!

It was a symptom of the insanity of human beings in a cosmos obviously designed for them to live in, but which they industriously prepare to make unlivable.

Children and barbarians have clear ideas of justice due to them, but no idea at all of justice due from them.

No man can be fully efficient if he expects praise or appreciation for what he does.

The most difficult of enterprises is to secure the cooperation of others in enterprises those others did not think of first.

I've never noticed that being nonsensical keeps things from happening. Don't you ever read about politics?

It isn't illegal to buy an artist's work for peanuts and sell it again at any price one can get. But it is an outrage!

The secret of getting along with people is that of postponing quarrels.

He had a stellar talent. I not only lost a contemporary in the death of Robert E. Howard. The world lost a writer of extraordinary gifts.

Love? Love is like holding water in your hands. You might have it for a time, but it escapes, leaving you with nothing.

I enjoy the work I do in comedies. It's a valid test of your creative abilities.

It is better to live as a broken piece of jade, than to live as a useless clay.

And all poets love dust and mist because all the last answers. Go running back to dust and mist.

When you're directing something, you absolutely have to be involved in all layers of the process.

For charity purposes, how do I help? A lot of prospective levers and tools have come into my life.

Under the old rules, Steve Bannon could never get a security clearance. But there could be a new rule, the Trump Rule.

I am who I am: confident, arrogant, dominant, honest, hard-working and innovative.

Those who refuse to play second fiddle may wind up playing no fiddle at all.

Dreams shape the world