It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship.

The day after that wedding night I found that a distance of a thousand miles, abyss and discovery and irremediable metamorphosis, separated me from the day before.

It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

If I can't have too many truffles, I'll do without truffles.

I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.

Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.

I love my past, I love my present. I am not ashamed of what I have had, and I am not sad because I no longer have it.

You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.

Never touch a butterfly's wing with your finger.

By an image we hold on to our lost treasures, but it is the wrenching loss that forms the image, composes, binds the bouquet.

A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.

Her faith in a loving and forgiving God is strong, but she worships laughter.

By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.

He’d never forgotten the sweep of her soft mouth against his, the taste of her sweetness, like strawberries, and the way she fired his insides to life.

How fatally the entire want of humor cripples the mind.

To feel grateful is one of the most important experiences we need as humans. When we feel it, there is an acceptance of everything in our life.

Lots of people have criticized my movies, but nobody has ever identified the real problem: I'm a sloppy filmmaker.

The seeming antagonism between capital and labor is the result of deceptive appearance.

Malcolm X is a person who has inspired - he has been the muse of several generations of black cultural workers, artists, poets, playwrights.

Some people like to remain in 'Nirasha'. And they are not satisfied till they have spoken about it to other people.

I think [food producers] should appreciate that we're only targeting their property. Because frankly I think it's time to start targeting them.