The chief beauty about time is that you cannot waste it in advance. The next year, the next day, the next hour are lying ready for you, as perfect, as unspoiled, as if you had never wasted or misapplied a single moment in all your life. You can turn over a new leaf every hour if you choose.

"The beauty of cinema is that it allows us to live a thousand lives in one."

And no grown-ups will ever understand that this is a matter of so much importance!

Civilization is not inherited; it has to be learned and earned by each generation anew.

Freedom is not merely the opportunity to do as one pleases; neither is it merely the opportunity to choose between set alternatives. Freedom is, first of all, the chance to formulate the available choices, to argue over them—and then, the opportunity to choose.