As stupid and vicious as men are, this is a lovely day.

Science never cheered up anyone. The truth about the human situation is just too awful.

The worst thing about film, from my point of view, is that it cripples illusions which I have encouraged people to create in their heads. Film doesn't create illusion. It makes them impossible. It is a bullying form of reality, like the model rooms in the furniture department of Bloomingdale's.

Human beings are about 1,000 times dumber and meaner than they think they are.

Think of what a paradise this world would be if men were kind and wise.

Where you can see tribal behavior now is in this business about teaching evolution in a science class and intelligent design. It's the scientists themselves are behaving tribally.

When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.