The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind pitiless indifference.

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.

Keep things at arm's length... If you let anything come too near you want to hold on to it. And there is nothing a man can hold on to.

I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won't deceive you except in matters of this sort.

The paranoid is never entirely mistaken.

When people start asking you to do the same thing over and over again, that's when you know you're way too close to something that you don't want to be near.

We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

Give up trying to make me give up

A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.

One of the great penalties those of us who live our lives in full view of the public must pay is the loss of that most cherished birthright of man's, privacy.

Freedom is from within.

I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different.

Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been.

Forewarned, forearmed. To be prepared is half the victory.

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

Never accept a drink from a urologist.

There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.

You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.

Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.

An idea is salvation by imagination