Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature.

The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.

We never look at just one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves.

That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe.

We only see what we look at. To look is an act of choice.

The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich.

To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal.

Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.

Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.

The past is the one thing we are not prisoners of. We can do with the past exactly what we wish. What we can't do is to change its consequences.

The human imagination... has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.

[Liberty] is a choreand a long-distance race, quite solitary, quite exhausting.

I hate to be fatalistic about it, but alcoholism, it's just in your genes. We had some of it in my family, and it just got me.

Any time you're mentioned in the same breath as Tony Esposito, for whatever reason, it's a great honor. He's one of my idols. He's one of the greatest of all time.

I would like to meet Mikhail Gorbachev. I think it would be great to sit in a room with him...and try to make peace.

I'm happy to see the union come together. We really need to clear up the public perception of what's going on.

Time is shortening. But every day that I challenge this cancer and survive is a victory for me.

I guess I became an actress because I didn't want to be myself.

I'm really getting to appreciate traditional jazz now - the New Orleans stuff - a lot more than I did before.

I was an awkward kid.

The world does not hate its own. It does hate our Lord. It hates His followers. Where do you belong in this lineup?