Look at situations from all angles, and you will become more open.

It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more.

What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.

‚Kiss Land‘ is like a horror movie.

It’s not morbid to talk about death. Most people don’t worry about death, they worry about a bad death.

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.

When you are an actor, you have to stay inside this world, but when you are with the crew, on the outside, you are in the dirt, working through all the issues. It’s just a different way of working, and I think I preferred it.

Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.

Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return.

To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing.

If investments in banks fall, it is a tragedy, and people say, ‚What are we going to do?‘ but if people die of hunger, have nothing to eat or suffer from poor health, that’s nothing.

Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.

Once you get into this great stream of history, you can’t get out.

God reigns when we take a liberal view, when a liberal view is presented to us.

Everything is clearer when you’re in love.

The major networks, the cable networks, they’re being prosecutors. They’re judges and jurors and executioners. Well, c’mon, that’s ridiculous. But they’re doing it.

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.

I grew up with the biologists. I know how they think.

Worth seeing? Yes; but not worth going to see.

I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.

When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.

Sooner or later we’re all someone’s dog.

Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.

Happiness is within the reach of everyone, rich or poor. Yet comparatively few people are happy. I believe the reason for this is that the majority don’t recognize happiness even when it is within their grasp.

Probably because I’m from a middle class family, I have that nature in me that I don’t get too excited with big things.

We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.

When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favour of the belief which he finds in himself.

Well, Art is Art, isn’t it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know.

It may be, it just may be, that life as we know it with its humanity is more unique than many have thought.

It’s useful to go out of this world and see it from the perspective of another one.

The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.

The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.

Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.

Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.

I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting.

It’s possible – you can never know – that the universe exists only for me. If so, it’s sure going well for me, I must admit.

Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.

Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, uses that something to support their own existence.

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

I’ll die a crazy old man!

Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.

I’ve got a feeling that music might not be the most interesting place to be in the world of things.

No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.

I sleep people. I put people unconscious. I’m stating facts.

The racing is quite boring, sometimes. It’s hard to see how it pulls in fans.

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.

In a magazine, one can get – from cover to cover – 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to live it.

One day it will be over, and I don’t care.

There is good and mediocre writing within every genre.

I mean, I feel like you get more bees with honey. But that doesn’t mean I don’t get frustrated in my life.

Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

Not only is there but one way of doing things rightly, but there is only one way of seeing them, and that is, seeing the whole of them.

However my parents – both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension.

People only see what they are prepared to see.

Thinking isn’t agreeing or disagreeing. That’s voting.

The point – the power to hurt – of all figures lies in the truthfulness of their application.

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

You know, people talk about this being an uncertain time. You know, all time is uncertain. I mean, it was uncertain back in – in 2007, we just didn’t know it was uncertain. It was – uncertain on September 10th, 2001. It was uncertain on October 18th, 1987, you just didn’t know it.

I’ll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there’s evidence of any thinking going on inside it.

I see the world in black and white, and I don’t like compromising.