To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal.

The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.

We never look at just one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves.

That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe.

We only see what we look at. To look is an act of choice.

The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich.

Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.

Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.

The past is the one thing we are not prisoners of. We can do with the past exactly what we wish. What we can't do is to change its consequences.

The human imagination... has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.

Do you know the legend about cicadas? They say they are the souls of poets who cannot keep quiet because, when they were alive, they never wrote the poems they wanted to.

The standard business model for corporations is to lie, confuse and deny anything that may threaten their profitability.

If you had to jump six or seven feet or certainly drown, it's surprising how far even older people will jump.

As far as talent goes, we had pretty much everything, and I think that's why this year was so successful.

The songs of the dead are the lamentations of the living.

I never wanted to be a man. I feel sorry for them.

When we find unjustified spikes in the prices of long-standing life-saving drugs, we should slap penalties on companies trying to cheat people who need those drugs!

The mind of a general ought to resemble and be as clear as the field-glass of a telescope.

Nothing to me is so erotic as a hotel room, and therefore so penetrated with life and death.

People with low financial literacy standards are often unable to take their ideas and create assets out of them.

It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out; it's the grain of sand in your shoe.