I love the irony of movies. I really do. For whatever reason, I'm incredibly intrigued by the irony of reality in a motion picture.
There is only one subject matter for education, and that is Life in all its manifestations
The motive of success is not enough.
Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of life is to grasp as much as we can out of that infinitude.
Great people plant trees they'll never sit under.
Human nature loses its most precious quality when it is robbed of its sense of things beyond, unexplored and yet insistent.
Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them.
The visibility at the best of times is liable to be a bit haxy due to clouds of ignorance.
It is a novel kind of supremacy, the best that life can offer, to have as servants by skill those who by nature are our masters.
Ever since I was four years old, I loved making people smile, making them think, making them feel good, feel some kind of emotion.
There's nothing compared to the history of writing about the city of New York that you get, say, in Charles Reznikoff.