To some men popularity is always suspicious. Enjoying none themselves, they are prone to suspect the validity of those attainments which command it.

Books minister to our knowledge, to our guidance, and to our delight, by their truth, their uprightness, and their art.

Science is the systematic classification of experience.

Originality is independence, not rebellion; it is sincerity, not antagonism.

It is unhappily true that much insincere Literature and Art, executed solely with a view to effect, does succeed by deceiving the public.

No man ever made a great discovery without the exercise of the imagination.

We must never assume that which is incapable of proof.

The true function of philosophy is to educate us in the principles of reasoning and not to put an end to further reasoning by the introduction of fixed conclusions.

Insincerity is always weakness; sincerity even in error is strength.

To write much, and to write rapidly, are empty boasts. The world desires to know what you have done, and not how you did it.

Good writers are of necessity rare.

Failure is not the deterrent for the next try. Rather, it is information that empowers the next step.

I'd rather have a life of chaos beside you than a life of quietude and stability without you...

The hardest decision of the day is always the first decision you must make. It's the choice you make to TRY.

Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others.

Whoever doesn't know it must learn and find by experience that a quiet conscience makes one strong.

I'm asked unendingly to become involved in series involving true crime and as it so happens the Netflix series that I'm working on is about a true crime.

I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable.

All is beautiful and unceasing, all is music and reason, and all, like diamond, is carbon first, then light.

At times when you're adapting a book into a movie, you have to take certain creative liberties to bridge the gap between the two forms of media.

Logic is a wonderful thing but doesn't always beat actual thought.