Advertising is not merely an assembly of competing messages; it is a language itself which is always being used to make the same general proposal

The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.

We never look at just one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves.

That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe.

We only see what we look at. To look is an act of choice.

The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich.

To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal.

Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.

Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.

The past is the one thing we are not prisoners of. We can do with the past exactly what we wish. What we can't do is to change its consequences.

The human imagination... has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.

In life one has a choice to take one of two paths: to wait for some special day - or to celebrate each special day.

It had been my repeated experience that when you said to life calmly and firmly (but very firmly!) "I trust you do what you must " life had an uncanny way of responding to your need.

The past with its pleasures its rewards its foolishness its punishments is there for each of us forever and it should be.

I don't want to be famous for being famous.

I don't work with a trainer. I just go to cheerleading practice and run a couple times a week.

I stay away from the telephone if at all possible.

The limbs will quiver and move after the soul is gone.

I know a lot of people who are 12 and doing things they shouldnt be doing. Whether youre an actress or a singer, its always the sexier ones that are selling more tickets or selling more albums.

Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men but from doing something worthwhile.

There isn't a feeling you can get on drugs that you can't get without drugs.