Isn't that exactly the definition of biography? An artificial logic imposed on an 'incoherent succession of images'?

Unlike the puerile loyalty to a conviction, loyalty to a friend is a virtue - perhaps the only virtue, the last remaining one.

The ludicrous element in our feeling does not make them any less authentic.

When his wife was at his side, she was also in front of him, marking out the horizon of his life. Now the horizon is empty: the view has changed.

(God) being the old man invented in order to, and with whom to, hold long conversations.

Youth is the only thing worth having. When I find that I am growing old, I shall kill myself.

No matter what her father wanted, no way was Clara going to partner up with Light Walker. He'd suggested a tarantula for a snack, for heaven's sake. The were never, ever, ever going to work together.

We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.

Obviously, in dealing with a relationship, sexuality has to be involved, and jealousy and emotions like that. And I don't know, I've always been intrigued by those emotions.

I grew up in the Alps and France, and Barbie was my first exposure to the American woman. For me she was blonde, she was free and she was fun.

Want of will causes paralysis of every faculty. In spiritual things man is utterly unable because resolvedly unwilling.

The most unhappy and frail creatures are men and yet they are the proudest.

We are all here for some special reason. Stop being a prisoner of your past. Become the architect of your future.

When you had a terrorist, you could only search a relatively narrow slice of numbers, primarily land lines.

Today's minor irritations may become tomorrow's treasured memories. We often don't know what we are missing, until it's missing.