In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.

Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.

Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.

He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.

I'm not afraid of dying I just don't want to be there when it happens.

I fully realize that no wealth or position can long endure, unless built upon truth and justice; therefore, I will engage in no transaction which does not benefit all whom it affects.

Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.

Reverence does not die with mortals, nor does it perish whether they live or die.

Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.

I am not now That which I have been.

They have formed their own 4-H club - the hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history.

His modesty amounts to deformity.

Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.

Get off your butt and join the Marines!

It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.

I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.

Freedom lies in being bold.

Give up trying to make me give up