No person can do this or that to keep another from being truly free. We are always free. Even if imprisoned.

Sine doctrina vita est quasi mortis imago" [Without learning, life is but the image of death]

At the last parent visitation night I'd sorta accidentally watched a majorly nightmarish scene between Aphrodite and her parents. Her dad's the mayor of Tulsa. Her mom might be Satan.

The ragamuffin gospel says we can't lose, because we have nothing to lose.

Many a sober Christian would rather admit that a wafer is God than that God is a cruel and capricious tyrant.

Bernard Herrmann used to write all his scores by himself. So did Bach, Beethoven and Stravinsky. I dont understand why this happens in the movie industry.

The ocean is worth writing about just as man is.

The Mexican...is familiar with death. [He] jokes about it, caresses it, sleeps with it, celebrates it. It is one of his favorite toys and his most steadfast love.

The secret of the illusoriness is in the necessity of a succession of moods or objects. Gladly we would anchor, but the anchorageis quicksand.

If poor people want food stamps, they should become massive corporations.

Considering how foolishly people act and how pleasantly they prattle, perhaps it would be better for the world if they talked more and did less.