"I am attracted to characters who think they are in control, but their situation is uncontrollable."

"Technically speaking, you can build anything out of sand; it doesn't mean you do it."

"I've always been attracted to cars, and driving is a completely measurable experience: if you qualify last on the grid, you're the slowest, and if you qualify first on the grid, you're the fastest. So no one can say you're slow if you're fast and no one can say you're fast if you're slow."

"By the time I finished comedy, I was really burnt out of it. I had had enough. I don't really have a strong desire to prove myself in that area, or to go back to it in any great way."

"We have today a fairly thorough knowledge of the early Greco-Roman period because our motivations are the same."

"Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons."

"Women are much more sensitive. We know that emotionally but their organs respond to the same degree."

"The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal."