The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain.

Fairy tales are about money, marriage, and men. They are the maps and manuals that are passed down from mothers and grandmothers to help them survive.

The female form provides the solution in which the essence itself is held; she is passio, and acted upon, the male is actio, the mover.

Meanings of all kinds flow through the figures of women, and they often do not include who she herself is.

If you want to learn about a culture, you look at what buildings the people lived in but you also want to know about their cosmos.

The more one knows fairy tales the less fantastical they appear; they can be vehicles of the grimmest realism, expressing hope against all the odds with gritted teeth.

The sombre-suited masculine world of the Protestant religion is altogether too much like a gentlemen's club to which the ladies are only admitted on special days.

Wonder has no opposite; it springs up already doubled in itself, compounded of dread and desire at once, attraction and recoil, producing a thrill, the shudder of pleasure and of fear.

When I was young, I did actually model and was much photographed by famous photographers. But I was always a bookworm.

I was brought up a Catholic and I was quite fervent, because I was sent to a convent school.

I avoid looking in the mirror.

Men often act knowingly against their interest.

Some archeologists believe that Stonehenge - the mysterious arrangement of enormous elongated stones in England - is actually a crude effort by the Druids to build a computing device.

[The Great Migration] had such an effect on almost every aspect of our lives - from the music that we listen to to the politics of our country to the ways the cities even look and feel.

All we can do is search for the falsity content in our best theory.

The more arms and legs [children] we have, the richer we are.

I find the most interesting and most daring scripts tend to be for independent films.

If you work at love, you will find love at work.

Russel Westbrook is a guy that impacts the game maybe like no other player in this league.

Everybody, every American starts to have - needs to start having a security plan. We need to be able to protect ourselves.

All political organizations tend to function like a machine, to eliminate the unpredictable factor of affect - emotion.