Only recently, during the nineteenth century, and then only in Europe, do we meet forms of the state which have been created by a deliberate national feeling.
Silence alone is respectable and respected. I believe God to be silence.
All experience is an arch, to build upon.
I firmly believe, that before many centuries more, science will be the master of man. The engines he will have invented will be beyond his strength to control. Someday, science shall have the existence of mankind in its power, and the human race commit suicide by blowing up the world.
Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.
They know enough who know how to learn.
My belief is that science is to wreck us, and that we are like monkeys monkeying with a loaded shell; we don't in the least know or care where our practically infinite energies come from or will bring us to.
There are two things worth living for, one is a good cigar, the other is a better one.
Being sent away to boarding school at seven is as great an inspiration as any songwriter could have - to be taken away from one's family and locked away for 10 years. It does create an incredible intensity of emotion.
Take a nap in a fireplace and you'll sleep like a log.
I love the gangster genre, but how many gangster movies are there? If I get a good gangster movie script, I'll do it.