In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they read more

In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Success is not something I've wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies, then yes, that's true, big-time read more

Success is not something I've wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies, then yes, that's true, big-time success. If not, it's much ado about nothing. [On the prospects for his 1997 movies The Rainmaker and Good Will Hunting].

Keep your face towards the sunshine and the shadows will fall behind you.

Keep your face towards the sunshine and the shadows will fall behind you.

Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or by read more

Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or by the handle.

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

Questions are the creative acts of intelligence

Questions are the creative acts of intelligence

You don't always get what you ask for, but you never get what you don't ask for... unless it's contagious!.

You don't always get what you ask for, but you never get what you don't ask for... unless it's contagious!.

An expert is someone who knows more and more about less and less, until eventually he knows everything about nothing.

An expert is someone who knows more and more about less and less, until eventually he knows everything about nothing.

Openly questioning the way the world works and challenging the power of the powerful is not an activity customarily rewarded.

Openly questioning the way the world works and challenging the power of the powerful is not an activity customarily rewarded.