Our Father which art in heaven - Stay there - And we will stay on earth - Which is sometimes so pretty.

Millions and millions of years would still not give me half enough time to describe that tiny instant of all eternity when you put your arms around me and I put my arms around you.

We should try to be happy, just to set an example

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Love is so simple. [Fr., C'est tellement simple, l'amour.]

When truth is no longer free, freedom is no longer real: the truths of the police are the truths of today.

All will be lost apart from happiness.

The more we try to control the things outside of us the more we lose control of our mind.

I knew that I had a facility with words and a power of facing unpleasant facts, and I felt that this created a sort of private world in which I could get my own back for my failure in everyday life.

This is what labels do. They stick. If people think you're MAD, then everything you do, everything you think will have MAD stamped across it.

Every person has lots of ingredients to make them what is always a one-in-a-kind creation. We are all imperfect genetic stews.

Art challenges technology, but technology inspires the art.

We seem to live a culture that doesn't want blemishes. The vision of most beautiful models... airbrushed in order to be seen as perfect, infects our notion of how literature should be written.

He overcomes a stout enemy who overcomes his own anger.

The privilege of feeling at home everywhere belongs only to kings, wolves and robbers.

Everyone's a millionaire where promises are concerned.

Even in 2012, if there's a black character in the movies or on television that's a professional, if we even hear about their backgrounds they're always 'up from the streets.