Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come in monochrome.

In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman is disposed of.

I think it's one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves. We align ourselves with the angels instead of the higher primates.

I haven't changed much, over the years. I use less adjectives, now, and have a kinder heart, perhaps.

I see her as a series of marvellous shapes formed at random in the kaleidoscope of desire.

What a joy it is to dance and sing!

Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.

We must all make do with the rags of love we find flapping on the scarecrow of humanity.

Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation.

If Miss means respectably unmarried, and Mrs. respectably married, then Ms. means nudge, nudge, wink, wink.

His wedding gift, clasped round my throat. A choker of rubies, two inches wide, like an extraordinarily precious slit throat.

Live more. Worry less. Do what you love.

When people divide, things end. Therefore: I won't divide because I don't want this to end.

The best life is the one which is lived happily without being noticed by others!

Saddam Hussein's trial would not be public since he could name countries and persons whom he gave money.

I shall be obliged to wander to the right and to the left, that I may investigate and discover the truth.

There are enough high hurdles to climb, as one travels through life, without having to scale artificial barriers created by law or silly regulations.

History is clarified experience.

In the national struggles of the proletarians of the different countries, they point out and bring to the front the common interest of the entire proletariat, independently of all nationality.

A little fire is quickly trodden out, Which, being suffer'd, rivers cannot quench.