Nothing is harder than to accept oneself.

It's precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meaning, that sound true to life.

There are all sorts of ways of murdering a person or at least his soul, and that's something no police in the world can spot.

Technology... the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.

Strictly speaking, every citizen above a certain level of income is guilty of some offense.

It is only the consciousness of a nonexistence which allows us to realize for moments that we are living.

Nothing is harder than to accept oneself.

The difference between an author and a horse is that the horse doesn't understand the horse dealer's language.

Dignity: the doomed man's final refuge.

There is no art without Eros.

You can put anything into words, except your own life.

When you say a friend has a sense of humor do you mean that he makes you laugh, or that he can make you laugh?

A man with convictions finds an answer for everything. Convictions are the best form of protection against the living truth.

Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.

My greatest fear: repetition.

I live, like every real man, in my work.

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Jealousy is the fear of comparison.

I don't believe in providence and fate, as a technologist I am used to reckoning with the formulae of probability.

If anyone has a conscience it's generally a guilty one.

I have no words for my reality.

Either marriage is a destiny, I believe, or there is no sense in it at all, it's a piece of humbug.

There is no such thing, as far as I'm concerned, as ownership in love.

Technology...the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.

Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.

There are those, I know, who will reply that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is. It is the American Dream.

Well, after I had the heart attack, it was a very simple choice. What the doctor told me I did and I did it religiously. I ate nothing but lean turkey breast or chicken breast or a piece of fish that was very lean. I mean I stayed away from everything.

My life is so full of surprises, nothing surprises me any more.

Excuses change nothing, but make everyone feel better.

It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.

They haul you up there for, you know, week after week in this kind of star chamber proceeding. Then at the end of it they say, well, we found nothing, but now it's time for special counsel.

Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?

Always, your work is the same: You have to tell a story, you have to make a character. It doesn't matter if there are thousands of dollars, millions behind it, or if there is nothing.

For years the Trio did nothing but play for musicians and other hip people. We practically starved to death.

There's nothing worse than talking about yourself to find out that you're not that interesting.

In the kingdom of heaven it is His work that will be crowned, not yours. Anything in you that He has not wrought Himself will count for nothing.

If nothing is to be done in the given situation, he must invent plausible reasons for doing nothing; and if something must be done, he must suggest the something. The unpardonable sin is to propose nothing, when action is imperative.

There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the Establishment - and nothing more corrupting.

There is sometimes a peculiar confusion in the West that equates progress to whatever is recent or whatever is new, and it is time we understood that progress has nothing to do with the chronology of an idea.

I think I had a more European outlook about the body and sex. The body is in no way dirty, and sex is something beautiful to give to and share with a lover. It has nothing to do with promiscuity, because I only believe in being in love with one man at a time.

Nothing is ever guaranteed, and all that came before doesn't predicate what you might do next.

There ain't nothing from the outside that can lick any of us.

Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity.

Religion has caused more harm than any other idea since the beginning of time. There's nothing good I can say about it. People use it as a crutch.

There's nothing better than good sex. But bad sex? A peanut butter and jelly sandwich is better than bad sex.

I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Bright light is injurious to those who see nothing.