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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.

Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.

Given a choice between grief and nothing, I’d choose grief.

The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

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 last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next.

We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.

Maybe the only thing worse than having to give gratitude constantly is having to accept it.

Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.

The tools I need for my work are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whiskey.