For time flows on, and if it did not, it would be a bad prospect for those who do not sit at golden tables. Methods become exhausted; stimuli no longer work. New problems appear and demand new methods. Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must also change. Nothing comes from nothing; the new comes from the old, but that is why it is new.

You can't write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.

General, your tank is a powerful vehicle It smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. But it has one defect: It needs a driver. General, your bomber is powerful. It flies faster than a storm and carries more than an elephant. But it has one defect: It needs a mechanic. General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.

Only bad generals need heroes.

What a miserable thing life is: you're in clover; only the clover isn't good enough.

Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.

One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.