What you see, but can’t see over is as good as infinite.

If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different.

The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.

‚Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.

Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.

The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.

A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view.

Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.

There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.

For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that – is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

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

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That’s relativity.

Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.

To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

People often think I’m a faker, but I’m usually honest, in a certain way – in such a way that often nobody believes me!

Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?

People may hear your words, but they feel your attitude.

The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in.

An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.

So let’s be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day, only in a different way.

I’m fascinated by the fact that we can’t grasp anything about time.

I never think about myself as an artist working in this time. I think about it in macro.

It was really hard for them to intimidate me. They felt I was intimidating. One of the growers had a name for me: I think it was ‚dragon lady‘ or something like it.

Life is grim, and we don’t have to be grim all the time.

To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.

Everybody is idealistic when you’re a kid.

Freedom is relative.

Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

Human nature is not nearly as bad as it has been thought to be.

When I was 11, the whole world was closed to me. I just felt I was on the outside of the world.

People see things differently and remember things differently. It’s why if somebody robs a liquor store and there are four witnesses they’ll often disagree.

Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.

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

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.

There are no such things as Flowers there are only gladdened Leaves.

Any experience that touches you, in any particular way, is good. It can be a horrible experience.

The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to us, occasionally a chord, never a melody.

We have one planet in our solar system that’s habitable, and that’s the Earth, and space travel can transform things back here for the better. First of all, by just having people go to space and look back on this fragile planet we live on. People have come back transformed and have done fantastic things.

They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.

Most of our lives aren’t that exciting, but the drama is still going on in the small details.

People make jokes about my bosoms, why don’t they look underneath the breasts at the heart? It’s obvious I’ve got big ones and if people want to assume they’re not mine, then let them.

I know how fiction matters to me, because if I want to express myself, I have to make up a story. Some people call it imagination. To me, it’s not imagination. It’s just a way of watching.

I’m half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times. It’s best not to ask questions and just enjoy.

It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But… it is better to be good than to be ugly.

If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.

No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.

Death is not the worst that can happen to men.

For people who may think they know, or have snippets of who I am, you can attack that person. That’s part of being a public figure.

Changes are not unusual – I mean, most movies, when they release them, they make changes. But somehow, when I make the slightest change, everybody thinks it’s the end of the world.

It’s a tragedy, in a way, that Americans are brought up to think that they cannot feel for other people and other beings just because they are different. They think they’re different. It’s very limiting.

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

Our life is what our thoughts make it.

Everything is clearer when you’re in love.

Everybody looks like clones and the only people you notice are my age. I don’t notice anybody unless they look great, and every now and again they do, and they are usually 70.

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

I’m not confused. I’m just well mixed.

It’s presumptuous to say you know how somebody feels.

I only see clearly what I remember.

I’m rather kind of old school, thinking that when an artist does his work, it’s no longer his… I just see what people make of it.

When I see a story, I ask: is this something I’d like to be in? Is this something I’d like to see? And if I’d like to see it, would I like to tell it?

I’m half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times.