When moral superiority combines with billowing ignorance, they fill up a hot-air balloon that's awfully hard not to poke.

Wherever I am, let me never forget to distinguish want from need

The longer you live, the more likely you are to have something to say.

If we can't, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread.

There's always a part of your nation's history that you haven't been told that... has a powerful impact on how you yourself may behave and may believe.

We aimed for no more than to have dominion over every creature that moved upon the earth. And so it came to pass that we stepped down there on a place we believed unformed, where only darkness moved on the face of the waters. Now you laugh, day and night, while you gnaw on my bones. But what else could we have thought? Only that it began and ended with us. What do we know, even now? Ask the children. Look at what they grew up to be. We can only speak of the things we carried with us, and the things we took away.

Silence has many advantages. When you do not speak, other people presume you to be deaf or feeble-minded and promptly make a show of their own limitations.