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

If you follow every dream, you might get lost.

Memory... is an internal rumour.

I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.

Our greatest foes - and whom we must chiefly combat - are within.

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

Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.

Delay always breeds danger. To protract a great design is often to ruin it.

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.

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

All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.

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

To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines.

The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone.

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

I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues.