The drama of light exists not only in what is in the light, but also in what is left dark. If the light is everywhere, the drama is gone.
The last thing a fish would ever notice would be water.
The tremendous and still accelerating development of science and technology has not been accompanied by an equal development in social, economic and political patterns …it is safe to predict that… such social inventions as modern-type capitalism, facism and communism will be regarded as primitive experiments directed towards the adjustment of modern society to modern methods
It seems to be a general rule that sciences begin their development with the unusual. They have to develop considerable sophistication before they interest themselves in the commonplace.
You are the master of your destiny. You can influence, direct and control your own environment. You can make your life what you want it to be.
If, as Emerson wrote, every word was once an idea, every cliché was once a revelation.
I think there's so many little specific things in the script [of "I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore"]. And the script was also structured so beautifully that I didn't want to mess with it.
If we want to create a different future, we must have the courage to look at the past.