The truth is that the fever of desire in youth is fleeting disease that intimacy promptly cure.

(...) always regretted that good memory often prevents us from thinking for ourselves.

The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.

If someone hurts you, he is hurting himself. He may not be able to escape that hurt in his lifetime.

Even if no command to pray had existed our very weakness would have suggested it.

I was supposed to be working on 'The Weekenders, ' but I was blocked. I got this crazy idea that I would make Christmas stockings out of blankets.

We cannot hope to win the ideological battle against Islam without criticism of Islam, it is essential that we continue to criticize Islam.

There are passions that it is not for man to choose.

I believe that every artist, in one way or another, is a wounded person. It's not natural to make art.

Love is the force that leaves you colorless

There are millions of ways for people to die, if you number each vital organ, each ways it can fail, all the poisons from the earth and the sea which can cause these failures.

When I was a kid, I always wanted to go to Europe, to go to Africa, to go traveling.