My knees have always been ugly.

You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough.

Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.

Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.

Man is jealous because of his amour propre; woman is jealous because of her lack of it.

What we ought to see in the agonies of puberty is the result of the conditioning that maims the female personality in creating the feminine.

Every woman knows that, regardless of all her other achievements, she is a failure if she is not beautiful.

Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark.

Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion but maintained by it, for it is a faculty of the psyche.

A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity.

Learn to work on your work.

We call upon all sides to stop hostilities and restart peace talks.

Until and unless we could disband these militias, this country won't be able to function properly.

Sorrow in the tongue will talk itself cured, if you give it a chance; but sorrow in the eyes has a wicked, wicked way now and then of leaking into the brain.

In such diffused changes of culture two factors are necessary: contact and understanding.

The soul may sleep and the body still be happy, but only in youth.

My movies continue to be found and be sold because there's something going on in them.

The narrative impulse is always with us; we couldn't imagine ourselves through a day without it.