"It is difficult to live with people because it is so difficult to be silent. And not against him who is repugnant to us are we most unfair, but against him who is no concern of ours."

"A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation."

"There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness."

"The 'highest' states of mind held up before mankind by christianity as of supreme value, are actually forms of convulsive epilepsy."

"The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it."

"The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time."

"There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist."

"Over in Hollywood they almost made a great picture, but they caught it in time."

"It is not the hours we put in on the job, it is what we put into the hours that counts."

"Student: 'Can you do problem number twelve?' Wyler: Twelve?...NO!...That problem is on the test."

"Our lives teach us who we are."

"People see God every day, they just don't recognize him."