There must be no barriers to freedom of inquiry. There is no place for dogma in science. The scientist is free, and must be free to ask any question, to doubt any assertion, to seek for any evidence, to correct any errors.

No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.

In the spring of 1936, I was introduced by friends to Jean Tatlock. In the autumn, I began to court her. We were at least twice close enough to marriage to think of ourselves as engaged.

My mother was born in Baltimore, and before her marriage, she was an artist and teacher of art.

Mandy' came from grief and depression. I wanted this to be an outward volcanic expulsion of the emotion of my first film.

What are the sources of poetry? Love and death and the paradox of love and death. All poetry from the beginning is about Eros and Thanatos. Those are the only subjects. And how Eros and Thanatos interweave.

Inactivity is death.

I have tried to improve on my death bowling.