A head can be beaten small enough until it fits the hat.

Men invent new ideals because they dare not attempt old ideals. They look forward with enthusiasm, because they are afraid to look back.

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried.

But of all the instances of error arising from this physical fancy, the worst is that we have before us: the habit of exhaustively describing a social sickness, and then propounding a social drug.

This cult of the future is not only a weakness but a cowardice of the age.

Our political vagueness divides men, it does not fuse them.

When a man really tells the truth, the first truth he tells is that he himself is a liar.

We must accept the fact that we have distorted and constricted our lives as adults in accordance with our unconscious beliefs.

Ignorance is constricted awareness.

People going from Southern Italy to the North say that they feel cold not only for the different climate, but for the less "warm" approach in relationships.

A standard line, promoted by people like Clement Greenberg,.. is that politics contaminates art, and Manet is often cited as an example of art for art's sake.

A photograph is neither taken or seized by force. It offers itself up. It is the photo that takes you. One must not take photos.

My life is brillant, My love is pure.

You have to show up in the World Cup, and in the World Cup anything can happen.

I love my mother. She's my first love. She has been through a lot and is a sole survivor.

Both abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives, as parallel realities. It is always our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend.

One thing you learn about the novel as a form is that it's always smarter than you are.