The thought came to me that all one loves in art becomes beautiful. Beauty is nothing but the expression of the fact that something is being loved. Only thus could she be defined.

And what would you do, ... if you could rule the world for a day? I suppose I would have no choice but to abolish reality.

There is nothing in this world as invisible as a monument

Layer by layer art strips life bare.

One does what one is; one becomes what one does.

If there is a sense of reality, there must also be a sense of possibility.

Progress would be wonderful - if only it would stop.

One must conform to the baseness of an age or become neurotic.

Stupidity is active in every direction, and can dress up in all the clothes of truth. Truth, on the other hand, has for every occasion only one dress and one path, and is always at a disadvantage.

The thought is not something that observes an inner event, but, rather it is this inner event itself. We do not reflect on something, but, rather, something thinks itself in us.

Life forms a surface that acts as if it could not be otherwise, but under its skin things are pounding and pulsing.

I have more concern for my nephew's welfare than for Lannister pride.

The environment is everything that isn't me.

If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.

I try to do stuff that I'm more passionate about, more than just like being all over the place doing different sneakers.

Deprived of the company of fools, a great wit does not seem half so clever.

Power unused is power useless.

Truth, like surgery, may hurt, but it cures.

Whenever I say goodbye its never for long because I believe in the power of love.

The citizen who sees his society's democratic clothes being worn out and does not cry it out, is not a patriot, but a traitor.

[Court] is an institution that depends on making tough decisions in close cases for reasons that it explains well and that, in the past at least, have proven satisfactory to the public.