Listen, real poetry doesn't say anything; it just ticks off the possibilities. opens all doors. you can walk through any one that suits you.

I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences.

I'm interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos, especially activity that appears to have no meaning. it seems to me to be the road toward freedom.

Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. they want to divorce themselves from their predecessors.

Every body continues in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a right line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed upon it.

If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.

To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.