If I were personally to define religion, I would say that it is a bandage that man has invented to protect a soul made bloody by circustance.

Assure a man that he has a soul and then frighten him with old wives' tales as to what is to become of him afterward, and you have hooked a fish, a mental slave.

I believe in the compelling power of love. I do not understand it. I believe it to be the most fragrant blossom of all this thorny existence.

Life is a God-damned, stinking, treacherous game and nine hundred and ninety-nine men out of a thousand are bastards.

How true it is that words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean.

Let no one underestimate the need of pity. We live in a stony universe whose hard, brilliant forces rage fiercely.

In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance.

Life is made for the strong. There is no mercy in it for the weak– none...Such is the tragedy of desire.

Love is the only thing you can really give in all this world. When you give love, you give everything.

Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.

Our civilization is still in a middle stage, scarcely beast, in that it is no longer wholly guided by instinct; scarcely human, in that it is not yet wholly guided by reason.

The only way you would have failed, " she said, "is if you had.

It was only when I started to be myself that the music started to flow and people started to listen.

I believe that Greenland will achieve independence during the time I am still active in politics.

Women's roles in the movies remain, for the most part, girlfriends, mothers, wives.

The Dormouse looked out, and he said with a sigh: "I suppose all these people know better than I. It was silly, perhaps, but I did like the view Of geraniums (red) and delphiniums (blue).

The human brain is built to compare; it's Darwinian to consider an alternative when one presents itself.

I find it odd that people take me seriously.

When anybody tells you something about writing, somebody will tell you something completely different and they will also be right

If you believe in your value, how could it possibly be appropriate to hide it from people who need it?

I'm not the worlds biggest remake guy, meaning finding titles and saying, "Hey it's got some brand awareness, let's just make a movie."