Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.

We choose not randomly each other. We meet only those who already exists in our subconscious.

One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is 'What does a woman want?'

In the small matters trust the mind, in the large ones the heart.

The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.

We are what we are because we have been what we have been.

I prefer the company of animals more than the company of humans. Certainly, a wild animal is cruel. But to be merciless is the privilege of civilized humans.

She had a face that had had lived a thousand stories and none with a happy ending.

Evil imaginations causes harm to others. Such things do not dwell in the mind of a righteous person.

Right at the flamingo orgy! Left at the multiethnic roof Santas! Straight past the pissing cherubs!

My kids used to do things to aggravate me, too. I'd take them to a game, and they'd want to come home with a different player.

I'm definitely one of the best. Always have been; always will be. I won't accept anything less.

Take the veto. Bush is the first president since James Garfield in 1881 not to veto a single bill. Garfield only had six months in office; Bush has had over four years.

To write that essential book, a great writer does not need to invent it but merely to translate it, since it already exists in each one of us. The duty and task of a writer are those of translator.

I felt the same fear in my first fight as I did in my last fight. It never goes away.

A cow is a very good animal in the field; but we turn her out of a garden.

The roughest part is showing up. Once you throw yourself into the scene, it's just great fun to let it all go and not be self-conscious, and stop questioning whether you're sufficient.