The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away.

I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been.

We have a disharmony in our natures. We cannot live together without injuring each other.

I began to see what people were capable of doing. Anyone who moved through those years without understanding that man produces evil as a bee produces honey, must have been blind or wrong in the head.

We're all mad, the whole damned race. We're wrapped in illusions, delusions, confusions about the penetrability of partitions, we're all mad and in solitary confinement.

I am astonished at the ease with which uninformed persons come to a settled, a passionate opinion when they have no grounds for judgment.

The thing is - fear can't hurt you any more than a dream.

I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.

I believe man suffers from an appalling ignorance of his own nature. I produce my own view in the belief that it may be something like the truth.

My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.

At the moment of vision, the eyes see nothing.

Worry is to human beings … what a condom is to a man with erectile dysfunction.

The reason that the American Navy does so well in wartime is that war is chaos, and the Americans practice chaos on a daily basis.

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.

I think for me, home needs to be a sanctuary. I need to feel like I've escaped the day when I get home.

The idea that ageing was subject to control was completely unexpected.

I was a really avid bowler when I was a teenager. I had about a 210-220 average. I had blisters on my fingers.

It is better to have a good painting with ten holes than ten bad paintings without any holes.

The primary ideology that operated to create, socialize, and reproduce them was not the ideology of racism. It was that of universalism.

Art lives from constraints and dies from freedom.

I'm one Pia Zadora, the same way all the time. That's why I'm happy. It took me a long time to get to the point where could be myself all the time.