The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.

Take a stress pill and think things over-- HAL in 2001

If man merely sat back and thought about his impending termination, and his terrifying insignificance and aloneness in the cosmos, he would surely go mad, or succumb to a numbing sense of futility. Why, he might ask himself, should he bother to write a great symphony, or strive to make a living, or even to love another, when he is no more than a momentary microbe on a dust mote whirling through the unimaginable immensity of space?

The lasting and ultimately most important reputation of a film is not based on reviews, but on what, if anything, people say about it over the years, and on how much affection for it they have.

Regret isn't going to get me anywhere. It's like being obsessed with something. It doesn't bring you anywhere.

The truth of a thing is in the feel of it, not in the think of it.

The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good.