For her, reading was directly linked to pleasure, not to knowledge or enigmas or constructions or verbal labyrinths…

Every hundred feet the world changes

The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower.

So everything lets us down, including curiosity and honesty and what we love best. Yes, said the voice, but cheer up, it's fun in the end.

Nothing is ever behind us.

Bright colours in the west, giant butterflies dancing as night crept like a cripple toward the east.

Metaphors are our way of losing ourselves in semblances or treading water in a sea of seeming.

…I realized my happiness was artificial. I felt happy because I saw the others were happy and because I knew I should feel happy, but I wasn't really happy.

You have to listen to women. You should never ignore a woman's fears.

His words saddened them greatly, though they couldn't say why.

When you know something, you know it, and when you don't, you'd better learn. And in the meantime, you should keep quiet, or at least speak only when what you say will advance the learning process.

They don't actually want you to do your own thing, not unless it's their thing too.

Art resides in the quality of doing, process is not magic.

Our lives are based on what is reasonable and common sense; Truth is apt to be neither.

In the class that I teach at one University, I stress that my one-word definition of politics is money. You can't name a subject matter that money doesn't touch.

A man's memory may almost become the art of continually varying and misrepresenting his past, according to his interest in the present.

I was also fortunate that I was raised in a part of the world, West Texas, where individualism is strong.

The animated bug has bitten pop culture. It makes me feel happy and free. When you don't act seriously, you can make up your own rules.

I've heard that shampooing your hair everyday is bad for the scalp.

I often do very serious roles, but really I am a big clown.

A maxim is a conclusion upon observation of matters of fact, and is merely speculative; a "principle" carries knowledge within itself, and is prospective.