At the end to death I must go, Finishing a real tragic and funny show.

Being a poet one confronts the limitation of language, how can the spirit be revealed under any restrictions.

What Albert Einstein termed optical delusion, The Indians termed Maya or Illusion.

The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.

If you limit yourself to sexual pleasure it's narcissistic. You don't connect with the other, you take what pleasure you want from them.

When the Jews leave Russia, Communism will collapse there. World Jewry is today relocating to America. Thus the real threat of Communism in America has just begun.

It's very difficult to be different from the rest of the crowd the majority of the time, which by definition is what you're doing if you're a successful trader.

Women have begun to see that if I go through that doorway, I take everybody through it.

Who rules East Europe commands the Heartland; who rules the Heartland commands the World-Island; who rules the World-Island controls the world.

Tarkovsky for me is the greatest [director], the one who invented a new language, true to the nature of film, as it captures life as a reflection, life as a dream.

I was thinking, too, of Superman and his fortress of solitude.

Now the [smartphone] has freed everybody, and so everybody gets better. No matter what you say, people will check you out on their phone.

In a world in which men write thousands of books and one million scientific papers a year, the mythic bricoleur is the man who plays with all that information and hears a music inside the noise.