If faces were different when lit from above or below -- what was a face? What was anything?

I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been.

We have a disharmony in our natures. We cannot live together without injuring each other.

I began to see what people were capable of doing. Anyone who moved through those years without understanding that man produces evil as a bee produces honey, must have been blind or wrong in the head.

We're all mad, the whole damned race. We're wrapped in illusions, delusions, confusions about the penetrability of partitions, we're all mad and in solitary confinement.

I am astonished at the ease with which uninformed persons come to a settled, a passionate opinion when they have no grounds for judgment.

The thing is - fear can't hurt you any more than a dream.

I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.

I believe man suffers from an appalling ignorance of his own nature. I produce my own view in the belief that it may be something like the truth.

My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.

At the moment of vision, the eyes see nothing.

Being able to appreciate who we are and what we have in the now is an easy way to journey through this life.

The more relaxed you are, the better you are at everything.

I just want to paint and say what I'm going to say.

Give me a man with a little fight in him, a man who calls me on my bullshit. (But who also kind of likes my bullshit.)

Government by blackmail is incompatible with democracy.

sometimes it's in your limitations that you find your greatest strengths.

Given a short time with a psycho-politician you can alter forever the loyalty of a soldier in our hands or a statesman or a leader in his own country, or you can destroy his mind.

All I can hope for is a reconstruction: the way love feels is always only approximate.

I could not be so sure of Spring / Save that it sings in me.

Storytelling is the essential human activity. The harder the situation, the more essential it is.