What I'm trying to do with most of my work is establish this new modernism, ... If people don't walk out of theatres saying, 'Yes, something is possible,' then you've failed.

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

Eclecticism is a good thing, ... This stuff is designed to mix. I'm not trying to tell people what they have is not good. (That's) just wasteful, just wrong.

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.

I do not love to be printed on every occasion, much less to be dunned and teased by foreigners about mathematical things or to be thought by our own people to be trifling away my time about them when I should be about the king's business.

Christ comes as a thief in the night, & it is not for us to know the times & seasons which God hath put into his own breast.