There are lots of things that you can brush under the carpet about yourself until you're faced with somebody whose needs won't be put off.

In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman is disposed of.

Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come in monochrome.

I think it's one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves. We align ourselves with the angels instead of the higher primates.

I haven't changed much, over the years. I use less adjectives, now, and have a kinder heart, perhaps.

I see her as a series of marvellous shapes formed at random in the kaleidoscope of desire.

What a joy it is to dance and sing!

Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.

We must all make do with the rags of love we find flapping on the scarecrow of humanity.

Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation.

If Miss means respectably unmarried, and Mrs. respectably married, then Ms. means nudge, nudge, wink, wink.

My new elf husband wasted no time in carrying me to the bed, then tumbling us both onto the coverlet.

In all of its operations, cinema ceaselessly strives, and fails, to make present a world hopelessly beyond grasp. For this reason cinema is, in its very nature, a nihilistic medium.

To all the living there is hope for a living dog is better than a dead lion.

Being in love is not cool!

Every time I think you’ve reached the limits of arrogance, you show me new heights. Truly, your egotism is like the Universe—ever expanding.

Go to a graduation party, put out a fish bowl, and you have a gold record.

There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.

Ah, now, don't cry over lost years and forgetfulness. The tales tell what they can. The rest is for us to learn.

We few. We happy few. We band of brothers, for he today That sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother.