Cultural contamination that is directed outward is always seen as ‘enlightenment.

The book is man's best invention so far.

Longing for love makes a woman beautiful and beloved.

We take care of our health we lay up money we make our roof tight and our clothing sufficient but who provides wisely that he shall not be wanting in the best property of all-friends.

People get excited around me and behave differently than they would normally. I don't feel different from anyone else, except that I drive a racing car round in circles faster than somebody else.

Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.

It never struck me as interesting that I didn't go to school - we had our own little world. I always thought of kids who were going to regular school as if they're the others, the separate ones.

I want my photographs to say: "Look-there's this thing you haven't seen that you should see."

I will get my respect or I will die.

Your husband is lazy if the directions on his medicine say, "A teaspoon before going to bed," and in one day he uses seven bottles.

I want every episode to feel like we still haven't done this right yet.