As an author, you can't expect a movie to be an illustration of the book. If that's what you hope for, you shouldn't sell the rights.

There's no need to talk about it, because the truth of what one says lies in what one does.

When an airplane's engines fail, it is not the end of the flight.

When we open ourselves you yourself to me and I myself to you, when we submerge you into me and I into you when we vanish into me you and into you I Then am I me and you are you.

People who commit monstrous crimes are not necessarily monsters. If they were, things would be easy. But they aren't and it is one of the experiences of life.

Desires, memories, fears, passions form labyrinths in which we lose and find and then lose ourselves again.

I certainly know German colleagues in the US who try to be Americans, try to melt into Americanism, even before they get married and become American citizens. But I've never tried that.

The more I suffer, the more I love.

What a sad story, I thought for so long. Not that I now think it was happy. But I think it is true, and thus the question of whether it is sad or happy has no meaning whatever.

Philosophy has forgotten about children

What is law? Is it what is on the books, or what is actually enacted and obeyed in a society? Or is law what must be enacted and obeyed, whether or not it is on the books, if things are to go right?

I also smoked two cigarettes, which was pretty good considering I could have smoked five if I'd really tried.

If you ever tell anyone about Jonah's sexual dysfunction, I'll never play music again.

That level of trust was what being in command was truly about--being able to lead someone not only down an unknown path, but also a seemingly wrong path, if the need called for doing so.

A true teacher should penetrate to whatever is vital in his pupil, and develop that by the light and heat of his own intelligence.

But from the hoop's bewitching round, Her very shoe has power to wound.

The marketing of homosexuality has an agenda, and that is to repopulate their population by recruiting the children of homosexuals.

Grief turns out to be a place none of us know until we reach it.

The man who gets bit twice by the same dog is better adapted for that kind of business than any other.

Humanity, its dignity and its balance, will depend at every moment and on every place on the globe,on who man is for woman and who woman is for man.

Somebody will come backstage and go, 'You saved me.' And I will have to say, 'Stop right there. You saved yourself.'