A great artist is never poor.

The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea.

You can't change the past, but you can ruin the present by worrying about the future.

I don't believe in evil; I believe only in horror. In nature there is no evil, only an abundance of horror: the plagues and the blights and the ants and the maggots.

There is something about safari life that makes you forget all your sorrows and feel as if you had drunk half a bottle of champagne — bubbling over with heartfelt gratitude for being alive.

There are many ways to the recognition of truth, and Burgundy is one of them.

A giraffe is so much a lady that one refrains from thinking of her legs, but remembers her as floating over the plains in long garb, draperies of morning mist her mirage.

Coffee, according to the women of Denmark, is to the body what the Word of the Lord is to the soul.

What is it which is bought dearly, offered for nothing, and then most often refused?--Experience, old people's experience.

Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk; it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine.

Be not afraid of absurdity; do not shrink from the fantastic. Within a dilemma, choose the most unheard-of, the most dangerous solution. Be brave, be brave.

In the men I love heroes, in the work I love heroism

What if I said I wanted a friend?' The ship crouches among the fresh-cut stalks. 'Or a lover? That's how you make a person, yes? By affection and intimacy. By touches like knives in a salted bed.

No noble man ever hated good wine.

Your personal choices matter. And you have the power. Use it.

The boundaries of democracy have to be widened so as to include economic equality also. This is the great revolution through which we are all passing.

The strength of the Democratic Party of Cook County is not something that just happened.

Ideas, like young wine, should be put in storage and taken up again only after they have been allowed to ferment and to ripen.

Once you start looking at the world rationally, it becomes much more exciting.

I'm a believer in film school.

What exactly is your 'fair share' of what 'someone else' has worked for?