German civility, which often seems stiff to us, shows an attentive and touching respect for the person that I often prefer to our offhandedness.

Unkindness almost always stands for the displeasure that one has in oneself.

I can easily do without people (there are days when I could easily do without myself), and ... in the country of books where I dwell, the dead can count entirely as much as the living.

It matters less to venerate things than to live with them on terms of good friendship.

The sight or sound of perfect things causes a certain suffering.

Our present-day artists do not transform, they deform. That gives pleasure to nobody. It changes everything, therefore it changes nothing.

Abstract art: a construction site for high fashion, for advertising, for furniture.

Each meeting occurs at the precise moment for which it was meant. Usually, when it will have the greatest impact on our lives.

Great wealth, like a crowd at a concert, Gathers and melts.

We need to create a society in which civility rules over cynicism and apathy.

The trick in life is to hang out until the miracles come.

I abjure with a sincere heart and unfeigned faith, I curse and detest the said errors and heresies, and generally all and every error and sect contrary to the Holy Catholic Church.

No state at war with another state should engage in hostilities of such a kind as to render mutual confidence impossible when peace will have been made.

I was a Knicks fan of the Kenny Sears-Carl Braun-Jim Baechtold vintage. I was even their ball boy when I was a teenager.

That works fine for me . . . Sienna Lauren Snow.

Well: the day is a poem but too much Like one of Jeffers's, crusted with blood and barbaric omens Painful to excess, inhuman as a hawk's cry.

I aim to be pretty - I gave up dressing to be sexy in the eighties.