Desire is endless and unappeasable, is most intense where most forbidden, and is never far from despair.

The sequence is suffering, insight, will, action, change.

One can often recognize herd animals by their tendency to carry bibles.

Freedom is the awareness of alternatives and of the ability to choose. It is contingent upon consciousness, and so may be gained or lost, extended or diminished.

The spirit of science is not to prejudge, but to give any honest query a fair shake.

One learns wisdom from sorrow, but pleasure is one of the fruits of wisdom.

Our life is an odd mixture of different moments of action andinaction, work and rest.

The kiss itself is immortal. It travels from lip to lip, century to century, from age to age. Men and women garner these kisses, offer them to others and then die in turn.

The Romans were not inventors of the supporting arch, but its extended use in vaults and intersecting barrel shapes and domes is theirs.

Life it is not just a series of calculations and a sum total of statistics, it's about experience, it's about participation, it is something more complex and more interesting than what is obvious.

Analytically speaking, Sigmund Freud talked out of his arse

Acting is a reflex, a mechanism for development and survival. . . . It isn't 'second nature,' it is 'first nature.'

The thing is, if you believe in the unconscious - and I do - there's room for all kinds of possibilities that I don't know how you prove one way or another.

Guitar players get inward and analytical about their playing but when you start to get positive feedback from other players it makes you think that it is coming together.

I am the conscience of the 21st Century.