"The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life."

"The past is not dead. In fact, it's not even past."

"Don't try to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself."

"All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible."

"The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews."

"Time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life."

"It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money."

"In the beginning, the universe was created. This made a lot of people very angry, and has been widely regarded as a bad idea."

"Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them."

"No great leader in history fought to prevent change."

"...the safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death."

"Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live."