There is no dignity for either the sufferer or the torturer

All stories have a beginning, a middle and an ending, and if they're any good, the ending is a beginning.

Anger is something you should only vent in front of intimates, and friends and relations. Never be angry in front of strangers because you lose face.

You never know . . . that's what makes life interesting.

So much of 'normal, civilized' life is bull that you can't imagine... What frightens you, doesn't frighten me, what frightens me, you'd laugh at.

Guard yourself and your conscience no one else will and know that a bad decision at the right time can destroy you far more surely than any bullet!

What can I do to help thee?" he asked. "Believe there is a tomorrow.

Life and death are the same...Leave karma to karma.

How beautiful life is and how sad! How fleeting, with no past and no future, only a limitless now.

The search for the truth is the most important work in the whole world - and the most dangerous.

.., by universal custom, your enemy is never more polite than when he is planning or has planned your destruction.

Nothing more than action speaks for love and passion.

Markets cannot meet the needs of the very poor. The desperately poor are not consumers who will create an immediate profit.

The preparation, commitment and desire to win will be no less than the last time I drove a grand prix car in anger.

In Amsterdam the water is the mistress and the land the vassal. throughout the city there are as many canals and drawbridges as bracelets on a Gypsy's bronzed arms.

The savages don't have atom bombs.

I borrow bits from everyone.

The whole effect of activity is to enrich the feeling of the other.

Maybe there's a chance to get back to grown-up films. Anything that uses humor and dramatic values to deal with human emotions and gets down to what people are to people.

This year, more people will use cocaine than will read a book to their children.

Genius is lonely without the surrounding presence of a people to inspire it.