Când ne deschidemtu mie şi eu ţie, când ne scufundămtu în mine şi eu în tine, când ne pierdemtu în mine şi eu în tine, Abia atuncieu sunt euşi tu eşti tu.

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.

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?

The Odyssey is the story of motion both purposeful and purposeless, successful and futile. What else is the history of law?

Is that what makes me sad? The eagerness and belief that filled me then and exacted a pledge from life that life could never fulfill?

But the finger I pointed at her turned back to me. I had loved her. Not only had I loved her, I had chosen her.

While looking into the mirror, you are saying to yourself: I am the best. Your own reflection makes you forget the only presence in the mirror.

We take thousands of decisions in life

The hope of a new politics does not lie in formulating a left-wing reply to the right-it lies in rejecting conventional political categories.

Stravinsky is masterly: his harmony is conceived so precisely that it can only be the way it is.

When I hit that pavement at 70 or 80 mph those suits just ripped.

We must be cruel as well as compassionate: let us guard against becoming poorer than nature is!

History is an orphan. It can speak, but cannot hear. It can give, but cannot take. Its wounds and tragedies can be read and known, but cannot be avoided or cured.

Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow you may be dead.

I was raised in Washington, DC in a household where one parent was a Republican and the other was a Democrat, so I got both sides.

In general, I don't care for scenes of copulation.Certain functions of the human body are bloody private.