To adopt the posture of the hero is the most unheroic of all acts.

Is it not the artist who - like our dreams - dissolves the pretenses that hide us from ourselves, disclosing both our self-serving fantasies and our unsuspected potentialities?

Myths of the heroes speak most eloquently of man's quest to choose life over death.

Without Satan, no Christ.

Desire for gain and fear of loss burn like fire.

since some people had told me that I was ugly, I always preferred shade to the sun, darkness to light

All our final resolutions are made in a state of mind which is not going to last.

I've spent a long time giving people the benefit of the doubt, and I'm tired of it.

Simplicity, to me, has always been the essence of good taste.

Yes, risk-taking is inherently failure-prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure-thing-taking.

But whilst there may be intrinsic reasons for the scarcity of land, there are no intrinsic reasons for the scarcity of capital.

Forget regret, or life is yours to miss.

Can I flirt with another guy to make him jealous?" "Oh no." She laughed, still holding my hands. "That will unleash something you can't handle. You don't mess with men that way.

We look too much to museums. The sun coming up in the morning is enough.

I say 'no' to drugs. Whenever someone asks me for some of my drugs I say, 'no.