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"Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary."

"The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold."

"The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it."

"Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts..."

"It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information."

"It's going to be a bummer if Mars turns out to be like us."

"If I thought I was going to die tomorrow, I should nevertheless plant a tree today."

"The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life."

"Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home."

"The best investment on earth is earth."

"A science is any discipline in which the fool of this generation can go beyond the point reached by the genius of the last generation."

The studio, a room to which the artist consigns himself for life, is naturally important, not only as workplace, but as a source of inspiration. And it usually manages, one way or another, to turn up in his product.

"I don't think you should feel about a film. You should feel about a woman, not a movie. You can't kiss a movie."

"I like a film to have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order."

"A story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end... but not necessarily in that order."

"Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world."

"To rule is easy, to govern difficult."

"Love does not dominate; it cultivates."

"One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste."

"We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe."

"When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars."

If you hear a voice within you say you cannot paint, then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

"There is only one satisfying way to boot a computer."

"Give me a couple of years, and I'll make that actress an overnight success."

"A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad."

"Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less."

"It's hard for corporations to understand that creativity is not just about succeeding. It's about experimenting and discovering."

"The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return."

"For half a century photography has been the "art form" of the untalented. Obviously some pictures are more satisfactory than others, but where is credit due? to the designer of the camera? To the finger on the button? tso the law of averages?"

"Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting."