There's something in the human personality which resents things that are clear, and conversely, something which is attracted to puzzles, enigmas, and allegories.

I’ve never been certain whether the moral of the Icarus story should only be, as is generally accepted, ‘don’t try to fly too high,’ or whether it might also be thought of as ‘forget the wax and feathers, and do a better job on the wings.

I never learned anything at all in school and didn't read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old.

I've never laid a cane on the back of a lord before, but if you force me to I shall speedily become used to the practice.

I'm just an old man and I smell bad, remember?

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

The reality of the final moment, just before shooting [the scene], is so powerful that all previous analysis must yield before the impressions you receive under these circumstances, and unless you use this feedback to your positive advantage, unless you adjust to it, adapt to it and accept the sometimes terrifying weaknesses it can expose, you can never realize the most out of your film.