Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.

It is a process of diverting one's scattered forces into one powerful channel.

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone.

My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

Freedom is from within.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.

The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances.

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

Genius is sorrow's child.

It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.

An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.

When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself.

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.

I sound my barbaric yawp over the rooftops of the world.

I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.

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

Even if you are divine, you don't disdain male consorts.