Dreams are excursions into the limbo of things, a semi-deliverance from the human prison.

Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy.

There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.

Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.

Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.

Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.

You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.

Maybe, it is not the thorn on the rose that we should see, but the beauty of the gesture.

Stab the body and it heals, but injure the heart and the wound lasts a lifetime.

Libraries are the ultimate restaurants for brain food. I sleep better knowing there are libraries. I would take a bullet for a librarian.

Teach your child to hold his tongue; he'll learn fast enough to speak.

This idea of repetition and revision is central to my working process-this idea of stacking and layering and building up densities and recoveries.

Politics is topical - it's what's happening now, and we can either respond in the present or avoid it.

Photography is essentially a personal matter - a search for inner truth.

Most of the early part of an actor's career, you do the jobs you get.

I'm sort of...coming off a bad relationship," "When did it end?" "Slightly before it started.

If we follow the example of Jesus Christ and become true peacemakers, that flood of love will cover the earth as with a blanket.