Things are always worse in the steady watches of the night.

All we have to do is listen. The Good Lord gave us two ears and only one mouth, my dear white-headed mother used to say.

I said it before and I’ll say it again: books are dead, plays are dead, poems are dead: there’s only movies. Music is still okay, because music is sound track. Ten, fifteen years ago, every arts student wanted to be a novelist or a playwright. I’d be amazed if you could find a single one now with such a dead-end ambition. They all want to make movies. Not write movies. You don’t write movies. You make movies.

Self-consciousness, that's what it is. Always my abiding vice. I keep seeing myself. Me watching myself watching others watch me. How do you lose that? What's the trick?

When we understand every single secret of the universe, there will still be left the eternal mystery of the human heart.

I knew I couldn't believe in God, because I was fundamentally Hellenic in my outlook.

I suppose the thing that really interests me is what mankind did with the big, big, big discoveries that have created our modern age.