We suffer from the malady of words, and have no trust in any feeling that is not stamped with its special word.

Without forgetting it is quite impossible to live at all.

Every past is worth condemning.

Happiness: being able to forget or, to express in a more learned fashion.

The great works are produced in such an ecstasy of love that they must always be unworthy of it, however great their worth otherwise.

A thing can only live through a pious illusion.

The crowd of influences streaming on the young soul is so great, the clods of barbarism and violence flung at him so strange and overwhelming, that an assumed stupidity is his only refuge.

The power of gradually losing all feeling of strangeness or astonishment, and finally being pleased at anything, is called the historical sense or historical culture.

... a thing can only live through a pious illusion.

I have been hurt so bad but I still love so hard, I admire my heart for that.

He banged on the side of the carriage. "Thomas! We must away at once to the nearest brothel. I seek scandal and low companionship.

In a general sense, to convert any short story, novel, play, or opera into a movie, you have to re-rig it. Even though they're all narratives over time, they're very different forms.

The suit-and-tie job is very nice, but it's not really who I am in my heart.

How [stories] are told, who tells them, when they’re told, how many stories are told — are really dependent on power.

You are not here to prove worthiness. You are here to extend the creation, creator, creating that you are.

Doubt that creed which you cannot reduce to practice.

I think I love my dreaming process because one of the things that my dreaming process does is sort out stories for me.

Indeed, we must foster cost-saving competition. And that means joining the marketplace of other industrialized countries - not just for the manufacturers who sell drugs, but for consumers as well.

We all saw it coming. Arsenal's youth policy has always been very good.