I can’t deal with someone wanting to take a relationship backward or needing space or cheating on you. It’s a conscious thing; it’s a common-sense thing.

Never let yesterday use up too much of today.

Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.

I kept a very full diary of my relationship with Nixon, for some strange reason, until he became president.

You would think that a rock star being married to a supermodel would be one of the greatest things in the world. It is.

In a relationship each person should support the other; they should lift each other up.

Science sent the Hubble telescope out into space, so it could capture light and the absence thereof, from the very beginning of time. And the telescope really did that. So now we know that there was once absolutely nothing, such a perfect nothing that there wasn’t even nothing or once.

Find joy and solace in the simple, and cultivate your utopia by feeling the Tao in every cubic inch of space.

In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.

People in Latin America… love America from afar and emulate America in some ways but also hate a lot of things that America does to them.

From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.

They say the universe is expanding. That should help with the traffic.

We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.

I think the worst part about a breakup sometimes, if one could choose a worst part, would possibly be if you get out of a relationship, and you don’t recognize yourself because you changed a lot about you.

Fool! Don’t you see now that I could have poisoned you a hundred times had I been able to live without you.

From my standpoint, being an artist, I want to see what the new construction is between artist and audience.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.

My wife used to be an anchorwoman in Arizona, so she knew John McCain, and she liked him, and I kinda liked him.

You can never plan the future by the past.

The faster you go, the shorter you are.

Cosmology is a rapidly advancing field.

I had the classic 40 meltdown. I did. It’s embarrassing. It was pretty funny. But then I recovered. To me, it was like a second adolescence. Hormonally, my body was changing, my mind was changing, and so my relationship to myself and the world around me came to this assault of finiteness.

Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.

I want to marry Arline because I love her – which means I want to take care of her. That is all there is to it. I want to take care of her. I am anxious for the responsibilities and uncertainties of taking care of the girl I love.

Space is almost infinite. As a matter of fact, we think it is infinite.

The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it – aliens.

Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.

There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.

A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.

When it comes to space, I see it as my job, I’m building infrastructure the hard way. I’m using my resources to put in place heavy lifting infrastructure so the next generation of people can have a dynamic, entrepreneurial explosion into space.

The thing about impressing your girlfriend is that when you do something like a private island in Fiji, it’s all downhill from that point.

I can’t deal with someone wanting to take a relationship backward or needing space or cheating on you.

Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient.

What is common sense isn’t common practice.

To be intimate with a married man, when my own father cheated on my mother, is not something I could forgive. I could not look at myself in the morning if I did that. I wouldn’t be attracted to a man who would cheat on his wife.

Through space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; through thought I comprehend the world.

I owe everything to Nirvana. But I can’t let that overshadow the future. For the first few years, I didn’t even want to talk about Nirvana. Partly because it was just painful to talk about losing Kurt but also because I wanted the Foo Fighters to mean something.

I took the vow of celibacy in 1906. I had not shared my thoughts with my wife until then, but only consulted her at the time of making the vow. She had no objection.

In my divorce, I stood up and said to my ex-wife, ‚Hey, I messed up. This had nothing to do with you. I didn’t understand what marriage was. I cheated. I was wrong. We couldn’t fix it; it got worse. I stepped away because I didn’t want it to get any worse. You’re the mother of my kids – I don’t want to hate you.‘

My wife and I are very affectionate.

I cannot say for certain if there is such a thing as love at first sight, but I do know that the moment I first glimpsed Winnie Nomzamo, I knew that I wanted to have her as my wife.

Working out another system to replace Newton’s laws took a long time because phenomena at the atomic level were quite strange. One had to lose one’s common sense in order to perceive what was happening at the atomic level.

Before 1915, space and time were thought of as a fixed arena in which events took place, but which was not affected by what happened in it. Space and time are now dynamic quantities… space and time not only affect but are also affected by everything that happens in the universe.

I don’t think the relationship between novels and realities are one to one. Of course novels play different roles. It’s essentially just a long narrative form. What you use that long narrative form for can be very different.

My greatest strength is common sense. I’m really a standard brand – like Campbell’s tomato soup or Baker’s chocolate.

Even these stars, which seem so numerous, are as sand, as dust – or less than dust – in the enormity of the space in which there is nothing.

The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.

But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

When there’s so much left to do, why spend your time focusing on things you’ve already done, counting trophies or telling stories about the good old days?

That great Cathedral space which was childhood.

My attitude has always been, if you fall flat on your face, at least you’re moving forward. All you have to do is get back up and try again.

You have people come into your life shockingly and surprisingly. You have losses that you never thought you’d experience. You have rejection and you have learn how to deal with that and how to get up the next day and go on with it.

I don’t regret anything.

Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one’s mistakes.

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

Things won’t get better dwelling on the past. Accept what has happened. Then move forward.

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.

Common sense is not so common.

For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.

Every relationship should eventually become a long-term relationship. Any director that I meet now isn’t just a director. He’s potentially a friend, and someone I can call to do a project that I want or that I have.