Every word wants to be taken literally, else it decays into a lie. But one mustn't take any word literally, else the world becomes a madhouse.

And what would you do, ... if you could rule the world for a day? I suppose I would have no choice but to abolish reality.

There is nothing in this world as invisible as a monument

Layer by layer art strips life bare.

One does what one is; one becomes what one does.

If there is a sense of reality, there must also be a sense of possibility.

Progress would be wonderful - if only it would stop.

One must conform to the baseness of an age or become neurotic.

Stupidity is active in every direction, and can dress up in all the clothes of truth. Truth, on the other hand, has for every occasion only one dress and one path, and is always at a disadvantage.

The thought is not something that observes an inner event, but, rather it is this inner event itself. We do not reflect on something, but, rather, something thinks itself in us.

Life forms a surface that acts as if it could not be otherwise, but under its skin things are pounding and pulsing.

No. She told me she was going to marry him, to get French nationality . . . She was obsessed with getting a nationality...

I know that when I pray, something wonderful happens. Not just to the person or persons for whom I'm praying, but also something wonderful happens to me. I'm grateful that I'm heard.

I am happy at Tottenham. I go into work every day with a smile on my face, and that is important.

The main objection to killing people as a punishment...is that killing people is wrong

A viler evil than to murder a man, is to sell him suicide as an act of virtue.

Where people aren't having any fun, they seldom produce good work.

Writing a novel resembles a journey with only the sketchiest of maps.

Sometimes I feel like I just open myself up like I'm a vehicle for something coming through me. It's like a meditative state I have to be in.

All I'm trying to do is wipe out heart disease, diabetes, hypertension, and obesity.

Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.