Please, understand that your life is bad and dreary!

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.

Do silly things. Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life.

Everything on earth is beautiful, everything -- except what we ourselves think and do when we forget the higher purposes of life and our own human dignity.

The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.

What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.

People should be beautiful in every way - in their faces, in the way they dress, in their thoughts, and in their innermost selves.

Life is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty.

To my way of thinking, the slavery issue is just an excuse to allow some people to do hateful things and feel righteous about it.

The word is a sign or symbol of the impressions or affections of the soul.

You've got to look and pick your shots - and that's where your class and skill comes out.

Growing up, my parents were my heroes, in the way they conducted their lives.

Happiness is a rare cosmetic.

History could hover, like a faint perfume or a memory stamped on the back of one's eyelids.

It's a little bit silly to pit us all against each other as if we were running a race. Just think about the fact that Richard Burton never won an Oscar.

Our relationships live in the space between us which is sacred.

The ruins of classic movie theaters are a personal obsession of mine, and I've made a couple of documentaries about it.

The whole notion that you can equalize opportunity in things that matter is utopian.