Ah, art! Ah, life! The pendulum swinging back and forth, from complex to simple, again to complex. From romantic to realistic, back to romantic.

The minute you get a religion you stop thinking. Believe in one thing too much and you have no room for new ideas.

Beer's intellectual. What a shame so many idiots drink it.

How talented was death. How many expressions and manipulations of hand, face, body, no two alike.

In order for a thing to be horrible it has to suffer a change you can recognize.

Don't they get afraid, then?""They have a religion for that.

Her eyes reversed into herself, to watch the secret heart of herself pounding itself into pieces against the side of her chest.

People die every day, psychologically speaking. Some part of them gets tired. And that small part tries to kill off the entire person.

Well, I've kept you waiting long enough, " he said, peering at me from that distance which drinking adds between people and which, at odd turns in the evening, seems closeness itself.

They came to study the dreadful vulgarity of this imaginary Mass Man they pretend to hate. But they're fascinated with the snake-pit.

The European reaction to Obama is a European delusion.

Maybe they didn't make vampires out of ugly people. Or maybe ugly people just didn't want to live forever.

We're not playing solitaire out here.

One of the things that appealed to me most about comics was that you can pick the ones you like and build your own personal pantheon.

A lot of children grow up in poverty with flawed parents, but their inner world is still as inherently filled with wonder and innocence as children who are kept away from the city's underbelly.

Surveillance induced morality: relics of cultural retardation.

Whatever you wish for yourself today I'm wishing it doubled - in the nicest way! Have a Happy, Happy Birthday

Amethyst is a meditative and calming stone that works in the emotional, spiritual, and physical planes to provide calm, balance, patience, and peace.

There's a lot of evidence in evolutionary sciences that show that altruism and acting in ways that are empathetic to others are actually beneficial on an evolutionary basis.

I knew I wanted to work in Cinemascope because I find it much more beautiful just in terms of the shape of the screen, the wider image, and it's also less like television, which is important.