Betrayal clearly has its own reward: the small deep human satisfaction of having one up on someone else. It is the psychology of the mistress, and this regime used it as fuel.

I like trains. I like their rhythm, and I like the freedom of being suspended between two places, all anxieties of purpose taken care of: for this moment I know where I am going.

There are no people who are whole" he says. "Everyone has issues of their own to deal with. Mine might be a little harder, but the main thing is how on deals with them.

Why are some things easier to remember the more time has passed since they occurred?

People were crazy with pain and secrets.

He can switch from one view to another with frightening ease. I think it is a sign of being accustomed to such power that the truth does not matter because you cannot be contradicted.

When I got out of prison, I was basically no longer human, ' Miriam says.

Ten days is time enough to die, to be born, to fall in love and to go mad. Ten days is a very long time.

Miriam is upset. Her voice is stretched and I can't look at her. Perhaps they beat something out of her she didn't get back.

She is brave and strong and broken all at once. As she speaks it is as if her existence is no longer real to her in itself, more like a living epitaph to a life that was.

You are beautiful. Know this. Anyone who tells you otherwise is simply lying. You are beautiful.

Orfanages r fule of little misstakes, just like my Englich.

A generous heart filled with gratitude is a magnet for abundance.

A programmable mind embraces mental agility, to practice “de-learning” and “relearning” all the time.

Of course there is a monkey. There is always a monkey.

Told me my tape taught them to swear. What about the make-up you allow your 12 year old daughter to wear?

People don't realize that there's no label and everything is self-financed and we make do and do our own thing. I was just happy to do my first video, I thought it was a fun experience.

There is a simple way to package information that, under the right circumstances, can make it irresistible. All you have to do is find it.

In that long sequence, when Lawrence enters in the desert to rescue a lost man, Lean listened the music I wrote and wanted to extend the scene to let my work stay completely.

Anybody who doesn't have a scandal I have no interest in meeting because they haven't lived their lives.