Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.

If a grasshopper tries to fight a lawnmower, one may admire his courage but not his judgement.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic.

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.

Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.

I never learned from a man who agreed with me.

A generation which ignores history has no past — and no future.

Don't ever become a pessimist... a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events.

May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.

It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.

Rekindle the flame within the soul.

You are a curse in my life!

Death descended like a theatrical storm over the Drakensberg Mountains, stranding me while it ran its course.

What cinema can do is the reordering of this reality from a certain chaos or from a certain order into an aesthetic dimension.

Land of snap decisions, land of short attention spans, nothing is savored long enough to really understand.

Sometimes, it's easier to tell a stranger something very personal. It's like there's less risk, opening yourself up to someone who doesn't know you.

I tend to gravitate toward Proenza Schouler and Alexander Wang. Their designs are accessible and easy.

The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.

Every pleasure you forgoe on Earth is a pleasure you won't get in heaven.

The more men have to lose, the less willing are they to venture.