The perceived wisdom is that people do not go in large numbers to black-and-white movies anymore - which is a great shame, but I'd love to make a black-and-white movie one day.

Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.

Baltasar Gracian

If at any moment of the day I ever think I'm remotely cool at all, which is hardly ever, I have two daughters who make sure that never happens.

Pat Benatar

The present is a point just passed.

David Russell

The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.

Bertrand Russell

Happy people are ignoramuses and glory is nothing else but success, and to achieve it one only has to be cunning.

Mikhail Lermontov

For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.

Mahatma Gandhi

Art is the collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

Andre Gide

The light that radiates from the great novels time can never dim, for human existence is perpetually being forgotten by man and thus the novelists discoveries, however old they may be, will never cease to astonish.

Milan Kundera

Asymmetrie [macht] Menschen unglücklich.

J.M. Coetzee

As god is my witness, it was never my intent to throw out the constitution. I thought it was hanging by a thread, and I could save it... You don't save it by cutting that thread. - President Nielson

Orson Scott Card

The best part about being alone is that you really don't have to answer to anybody. You do what you want.

Justin Timberlake

When two people are really happy about one another, one can generally assume that they are mistaken.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe