MAN is a slave only to his own mental lethargy.

Poetry is prose bewitched, a music made of visual thoughts, the sound of an idea.

LOVE of others is the appreciation of one's self. MAY your egotism be so gigantic that you comprise mankind in your self-sympathy.

There is no Space or TimeOnly intensity, And tame thingsHave no immensity

Some say that happy women are immaterial.

The past has come apart events are vagueingthe future is inexploitable

It is not given to each of usTo be desired.

Oh that's right Keep away from me Please give me a pushDon't let me understand you Don't realise meOr we might tumble togetherDepersonalizedIdenticalInto the terrific NirvanaMe you --- you --- me

LOVE the hideous in order to find the sublime core of it.

Fear of nature led to society

Bob Altman had this relaxed but serious attitude. Everybody loved him. I wanted him to adopt me.

Growing up, all I did was play sports. I always loved music, but I never even thought I'd be on stage one day.

We had other currencies that we could find work in - the currencies of movements: passion, spirit, creativity.

I am not going to put my daughter under any sort of stresses.

Phasing out the human race will solve every problem on earth, social and environmental.

I've always said that next to Imperial China, the South is the best place in the world to be an old lady.

In a stage play, you kill the leads and they come out for a bow - in a movie, they don't come out for a bow, they're dead.

What we need today are not more laws to govern believers. What we need is a greater revelation and appreciation of Jesus and everything that He has done for us!

It proved to be pretty impossible to get funds for a feature film in Finland. It's still small, but the film industry was miniscule at that point in the early '80s.