In France, they make you feel that you cannot be two things at the same time. You can't be French and Arabic; you can't be French and Muslim.

It must descend, as the dew, upon the tender herb, or like melting flakes of snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.

Art brings people back to their sensibility as human beings. This is the purpose of art: To bring people together and bring back the humanity as well.

Finite mind cannot comprehend infinity.

We see how much a man has, and therefore we envy him; did we see how little he enjoys, we should rather pity him.

Life's only choosing when to die. Life's a big postponement because the choice is so difficult. It's a tremendous relief not to have to choose.

Then what are you? An electronic Hannibal Lector? You can't eat my liver with fava beans through a modem, you know.

I'm trying to create artwork that makes people, and myself, think about judgment as a reflex. This is something that must be changed.

For we seldom admire the wit, when we dislike the man.

Great wits, like great beauties, look upon mere esteem as a flat insipid thing; nothing less than admiration will content them.

That wit is truly amiable, which gladdens and enlivens every thing, which shines with a lustre gentle, but not faint, and powerful, but not glaring.

A man needs only his daily bread.

Humanity is a very interesting phenomenon. If you peel back the layers, if you're brave enough, you realize it's something that's not for the faint of heart-" Angel M.B. Chadwick

You're always going to have extremists in every religion.

A 'whim' is a desire experienced by a person who does not know and does not care to discover its cause.

I don't want to say I'll never play someone with a cockney accent, but I think I would be irritated by me doing it.

No great spiritual event befalls those who do not summon it.

What God chooses for us children of men is always the best.

On a horse that consistently hung left-The best thing you can do is put a bit of lead in his right ear, to act as a counterbalance ... with a shotgun.

I am one of the lucky few who is successful in their career, and I'm really enjoying myself.

'I don't get it,' Caroline said, bemused. 'She's the only one with wings. Why is that?'