No artifact is a work of art if it does not help to humanize us. Without art...our world would have remained a jungle.

Miracles happen to those who believe in them.

You can parody and make fun of almost anything, but that does not turn the universe into a caricature.

Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

Psychoanalysts are not occupied with the minds of their patients; they do not believe in the mind but in a cerebral intestine.

A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the oneself that there is no self left to die.

I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.

Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity.

There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man's reason has never learnt to separate them.

It makes me happy to encounter goodness, love of work, humane intelligence, and people no matter at what kind of job, be it ever so humble, or ever so exalted, who do it well and con amore.

Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope.

Maybe there are entire worlds where there are no fences, where feeling bears you like a tide.

Breaks are good because you need breaks to be more creative. It's hard to come up with that creativity and the stamina for that creativity, all the time.

Humanity does not know where to go because no one is waiting for it: not even God.

I think men like the boobie shows. Vegas will always be Vegas.

Idioms are a big thing in Ireland. They want to fill the time, to show how good they are at talk - it's a talk-off

I've been thinking about forever

You really have to begin by figuring out what kind of person you are. The tip is to really take a look at yourself.

No, tiny violent one.

I want to play every game of my career in an Astros uniform.

What we call fate does not come into us from the outside, but emerges from us.