A fairy tale is the kind of story in which one king goes to another king to borrow a cup of sugar.

In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman is disposed of.

Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come in monochrome.

I think it's one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves. We align ourselves with the angels instead of the higher primates.

I haven't changed much, over the years. I use less adjectives, now, and have a kinder heart, perhaps.

I see her as a series of marvellous shapes formed at random in the kaleidoscope of desire.

What a joy it is to dance and sing!

Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.

We must all make do with the rags of love we find flapping on the scarecrow of humanity.

Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation.

If Miss means respectably unmarried, and Mrs. respectably married, then Ms. means nudge, nudge, wink, wink.

Accepting uncertainty was the key to happiness.

There are two paths that you must never leave in your life: The path of peace and the path of reason!

He'd been saving up his love for years and years, waiting for the right personto spend his fortune on.

I still love to play chess. So I do not even spend a minute on the possibility to step back.

I feel like there's a desire for a sense of permanence that is growing in me.

Lust's passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.

There's nothing wrong with us. There's nothing missing in us. Everything is for us and there is nothing against us. Let us remember this together.

Why is it such a big deal what I'm swimming?

The only real people are the people who never existed.

There are financial bankruptcies in many parts of the church. No question about that. But we see the possibility of reimagining and revitalizing the church.