Pain ... after you've lived with it long enough, isn't pain anymore. It's something else.

The only important elements in any society are the artistic and the criminal, because they alone, by questioning the society’s values, can force it to change.

It’s a very new, not to mention vulgar, idea that the spectator’s experience should be identical to, or even have anything to do with, the artist’s.

The problem isn't to learn to love humanity, but to learn to love those members of it who happen to be at hand.

Babes, I am so bored here that I don't think, since I've come, I've ever been more than three minutes away from some really astonishing act of violence.

The truth is always multiplex.

Apocalypse has come and gone. We're just grubbing in the ashes.

Ambition like a liquid ruby stains.

The pleasures of love are really quite wonderful--though I suspect they are rather a luxury and require a certain level of socioeconomic stability to be anything other than a mode of suffering.

Don't go chattering to the stars if you're going to do it with your eyes closed.

It is easier to argue that something nobody believes in actually exists than it is to argue that something everybody believes in is unreal.

Don't beat yourself up, " said Charlotte. "True love can be so easily mistaken for other things-friendship, humane concern, indigestion...

He's got everything. He' not a great player yet because he hasn't won any major championships, but it's a matter of time. He's an outstanding talent. I didn't realize how tall he is.

Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.

The jewelry stores say, 'Tell your wife you love her with a diamond,' while wives tell you they love you with, 'Ok, but just because it's Valentine's Day.'

And the thing which is missing is love, some feeling for, as well as some understanding of, the inclusive community of rocks and soils, plants and animals, of which we are a part.

I go on many thrilling adventures and wondrous, profound escapades through books.

I love it when celebrities fall apart.

If you can grow in love, you will grow in awareness. If you grow in awareness, you will grow in love.

I suppose you just feel on an instinctive level if something is honest.

It should be remembered, as an axiom of eternal truth in politics, that whatever power in any government is independent, is absolute also.