Material Quotes

Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.

The human body is vapor materialized by sunshine mixed with the life of the stars.

Goods can serve many other purposes besides purchasing money, but money can serve no other purpose besides purchasing goods.

The Woodruff Library Archives has done a phenomenal job archiving my son’s materials.

As material fortune is associated with the properties of the body, so honor belongs to those of the soul.

The mind of man has perplexed itself with many hard questions. Is space infinite, and in what sense? Is the material world infinite in extent, and are all places within that extent equally full of matter? Do atoms exist or is matter infinitely divisible?

At times, I have been convinced that books hold all the material of life–at least all the stuff that fits between an A and a Z.

I’m not fixed in any genre. I love all kinds of films. The essential thing is; you have to have good material. If you have the filmmaker, and the material, and the script is good, you can start from there.

I don’t write material. Funny things happen to me in the course of a day, and I just make notes.

A man should dress in a way that you don’t notice. He looks good and you don’t know why. But it’s the tailoring, the materials, and the clothes.