The creator does not create only for the pleasure of creating but . . . he also desires to subdue other minds.

When one looks back over human existence however, it is very evident that all culture has developed through an initial resistance against adaptation to the reality in which man finds himself.

The artist always has been and still is a being somewhat apart from the rest of humanity.

There is one great and universal wish of mankind expressed in all religions, in all art and philosophy, and in all human life: the wish to pass beyond himself as he now is.

The amount which cannot be harnessed and domesticated, but insists on its own form of activity rather than one which is offered ready made, is the energy used for the creation of art.

. . . woman is a being dominated by the creative urge and . . . no understanding of her as an individual can be gained unless the significance and effects of that great fact can be grasped.

Min ene sko knirker af mangel på stjerneskud

Ignore cynicism, appreciate criticism, and embrace optimism.

I argued that the Bush administration, and the Coalition officials more recently, didn't understand Iraqi society. They thought it was a blank slate, that they could use Iraqis as guinea pigs.

There is no such thing as a good script, onlya good film, and I'm conscious that my scripts often read better than they play.

In the past, I had my idols but today I enjoy learning from all the soccer I watch.

Agence France Presse says the Communist Party doesn't endorse Barack Obama, but that's just the media covering for him again. Because they do endorse Obama.

Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.

A man of rare common sense and directness of speech, as of action; a transcendentalist above all, a man of ideas and principles,Mthat was what distinguished him.

I just plan on playing my best and continuing to put myself in a great position to win. I hope to win a 2nd bracelet and hopefully a WPT title.

It's the oldest question of all, George. Who can spy on the spies?