I am only a picture-taster, the way others are wine-or tea-tasters.

Miracles happen to those who believe in them.

No artifact is a work of art if it does not help to humanize us. Without art...our world would have remained a jungle.

You can parody and make fun of almost anything, but that does not turn the universe into a caricature.

Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

Psychoanalysts are not occupied with the minds of their patients; they do not believe in the mind but in a cerebral intestine.

A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the oneself that there is no self left to die.

I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.

Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity.

There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man's reason has never learnt to separate them.

It makes me happy to encounter goodness, love of work, humane intelligence, and people no matter at what kind of job, be it ever so humble, or ever so exalted, who do it well and con amore.

The Church says that the Earth is flat, but I know that it is round. For I have seen the shadow of the earth on the moon and I have more faith in the Shadow than in the Church.

Questions after a fatal fall of a giant are like lighting a fire by a breeze laden sea.

Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

I think of myself as a highly sexual creature.

There are many ways to store power. You can visit places of power, special locations on the earth that are charged with power.

Hey, I'm like the Wayne Gretsky of the entertainment biz - I have other people do my dirty work while I skate around and get to be a nice guy. What can I say? I'm a coward.

Whatsoever is good; the same is also approved of God.

Common sense should tell us that positively reinforcing sadistic behavior, as these games do, cannot be good for our children.

Invention is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration.

people can die , dreams cant