Fidelity is for phonographs

The life of every citizen is becoming a business. This, it seems to me, is one of the worst interpretations of the meaning of human life history has ever seen. Man's life is not a business.

A man must have limits and cannot give in to the wild desires to be everything and everyone and everything to everyone.

Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.

But a man's character is his fate... and in the end there isn't any way to disguise the nature of the knocks by acoustical work on the door or gloving the knuckles.

Live or die but don't poison everything.

I pretended not to understand. One of life's hardest jobs, to make a quick understanding slow. I think I succeeded, thought Herzog.