The idea of modernity is beginning to lose its vitality. It is losing it because modernity is no longer a critical attitude but an accepted, codified convention.

The Mexican...is familiar with death. [He] jokes about it, caresses it, sleeps with it, celebrates it. It is one of his favorite toys and his most steadfast love.

Beyond myself, somewhere, I wait for my arrival.

Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.

To love is to battle, to open doors, to cease to be a ghost with a number forever in chains, forever condemned by a faceless master; the world changes if two look at each other and see.

Deserve your dream.

A flower without a stem, is beauty waiting to die. A heart without love, is a tear waiting to cry.

Love is not a desire for beauty; it is a yearning for completion.

A civilization that denies death ends by denying life.

Every moment is nothing without end.

Whatever is not stone is light

Calvin: Sometimes when I'm talking, my words can't keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we can think faster than we speak? Hobbes: Probably so we can think twice.

Nature shows me incredible beauty standing just beyond the rat race. It's always there if I'm open enough to see it.

Although I am a strong political conservative, I now believe that the costs of our fruitless struggle against illegal drugs are not worth the modest benefits likely to be achieved.

The wolf never kills for fun, which is probably one of the main differences distinguishing him from man.

If the dance is right, there shouldn't be a single superfluous movement.

It takes a wonderful brain and exquisite senses to produce a few stupid ideas.

A big element of what they regard as conformity is simply a desire to have an audience.

Art is a means of union among men, joining them together in the same feeling.

Everything is paradox. The danger is one-dimensional thinking.

My eyebrows make a more profound impact on [other] people than they do on me... I just let 'em grow.