I used to do a lot of apologizing for what the State Department had done.
The end of childhood is when things cease to astonish us. When the world seems familiar, when one has got used to existence, one has become an adult.
I personally would like to bring a tortoise onto the stage, turn it into a racehorse, then into a hat, a song, a dragoon and a fountain of water. One can dare anything in the theatre and it is the place where one dares the least.
Banality is a symptom of non-communication. Men hide behind their cliches.
You've always made the mistake of being yourself.
Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A manifestation of eternity, and a sign of death as well.
Language should almost break up or explode in its fruitless effort to contain so many meanings.
It was like the first time I'd ever seen Hollywood just really not do the right thing. We filmed Free Willy in Mexico. I'd come in a really nice car from my hotel, and we'd have to drive around all the crew that was sleeping in the parking lot. People making their breakfast on the ground. It was because there was a whale there that was in a little tank. It just felt gross. It felt really bad. They didn't free that whale for, damn. . . at least 10 years later. The poor whale had horrible psoriasis all over him, and his fin didn't work.
I think we need to find more reasons to unify rather than divide each other.
The tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man. . . it constitutes the powerful obstacle to culture.
The changing year's successive plan Proclaims mortality to man.