"Nothing is truer in a sense than a funeral oration: It tells precisely what the dead man should have been."

“You can't operate a company by fear, because the way to eliminate fear is to avoid criticism. And the way to avoid criticism is to do nothing.”

“Indeed, the line between perceiving and hallucinating is not as crisp as we like to think. In a sense, when we look at the world, we are hallucinating all the time. One could almost regard perception as the act of choosing the one hallucination that best fits the incoming data.”

“You gotta be a man to play baseball for a living, but you gotta have a lot of little boy in you, too.”

Source : Quoted in New York Journal-American, 12 Apr. 1957

“Democracy will defeat the economist at every turn on its own genre.”

“I'm just into making quality stuff if I can, with interesting people and good scripts. But it's very important that it's about something and that it says something. Otherwise, I don't know what the point is, really.”

“I always love some sci-fi and any type of post-apocalyptic world idea.”

“Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion--the passion for sweetness and light. It has one even yet greater, the passion for making them all prevail. It is not satisfied till we all come to a perfect man; it knows that the sweetness and light of the few must be imperfect until the raw and unkindly masses of humanity are touched with sweetness and light.”

Source : "Culture and Anarchy" by Matthew Arnold, (Ch. I), 1869.

“Think of the wonderful circles in which our whole being moves and from which we cannot escape no matter how we try. The circler circles in these circles.”