This life is but a dream. A state of sleep but how unfortunate that man's eyes open only when they are about to be closed (forever).

We wish to become one thing or another, rather we wish to become everything and in this pursuit of becoming everything we only end up becoming idiots.

In order to spend out our time (life) we sell some of this time. We work for someone, we labour. In freedom we do slavery.

The ocean sleeps. The ocean wakes. And the waking of the ocean is the waking of the soul. At midnight wakefulness springs from within the ocean.

You're never ready for what you have to do. You just do it. That makes you ready.

the capacity to work feeds on itself and has its own course of development. This is what artists have going for them.

Beware of lawyers and consultants and people who do not take risks and who do not get their hands dirty.

Writing a novel in general is like trying to reach a mountain top you'll never quite reach - so you try again and maybe get a little closer.

It is not permitted that we should know everything.

Childhood is over when you know you’re gonna die.

Stig: 'Of course, she'll sail rings around Wolfswind,' Hal: 'Then why didn't you tell him that?' Stig: 'I like my head where it is.

Our lives are composed of a finite set of moments that we choose how to spend.

The history of science is everywhere speculative. It is a marvelous hiatory. It makes you proud to be a human being.

The way I sometimes approach my work, when I look at a script for the first time, is to identify what the archetypes are and what the writing is trying to do in that context.