You have not yet learned that in this life you have to be like everyone else: the perfect mediocrity--no better, no worse. Individuality is a monster and it must be strangled in its cradle to make our friends feel comfortable.

The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.

You're an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.

Anybody who runs is a VC. Anybody who stands still is a well-disciplined VC.

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

A film needs more than you can give it in a lifetime.

The most terrifying fact about the universe not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent