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

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

As long as we believe in absurdities we shall continue to commit atrocities.

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

A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone.

Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.

Who the hell wants fourteen pairs of shoes when they go on holiday? I haven't had fourteen pairs in my life.

By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.

Not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.

Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.

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

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.

Radical simply means 'grasping things at the root'.

Authority, without any condition and reservation, belongs to the nation.

Every man's memory is his private literature.

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

I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.