A great writer has a high respect for values. His essential function is to raise life to the dignity of thought, and this he does by giving it a shape.

We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.

Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.

The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.

We can talk frankly about our defects only to those who recognise our qualities.

An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

We appreciate frankness from those who like us. Frankness from others is called insolence.

Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

We live in a society where those that do the greatest damage to humanity and nature reap the greatest financial rewards.

My artwork isn't evolving, it's deconstructing, and I don't know why.

May God grant you a great grace to live the fullness of life in the coming year.

When we do not know our true identity as powerful creators, we are susceptible to being used and manipulated.

If you go back to the Greeks and Romans, they talk about all three - wine, food, and art - as a way of enhancing life.

He expects nothing, she thought, because he's never had anything. And nothing was expected of him. He was free in a way she never would be.

I was always a self-conscious person.

One of the things I've done is tell myself I can't let bad things that happen to me on the field, off the field, whatever, affect me.

The dialectic cannot stop short before the conceptsof health and sickness, nor indeed before their siblings reason and unreason.

I haven't seen the show, but when it was finished I felt good about what we had done. I don't know how it will stack up with Survival, but that'll be up to the critics.