When Ulysses hears his own story sung by an epic poet and then he reveals his identity and the poet wants to continue singing, Ulysses isn't interested any longer. That's very astonishing.

Being or nothing, that is the question. Ascending, descending, coming, going, a man does so much that in the end he disappears.

There have been only rare moments in history where individual histories were able to run their course without wars or revolutions.

Religions tend to disappear with man's good fortune.

Man's usual routine is to work and to dream and work and dream.

The Odyssey is the story of someone who, in the course of diverse experiences, acquires a personality or affirms and recovers his personality.

The Iliad is the private lives of people thrown into disorder by history.

To have one's own story told by a third party who doesn't know that the character in question is himself the hero of the story being told, that's a technical refinement.

A very great Iliad... concerns the creation of a nation.

All confessions are Odysseys.

It is the creator of fiction's point of view; it is the character who interests him. Sometimes he wants to convince the reader that the story he is telling is as interesting as universal history.

They hate us because we are atheists and we feel sorry for them because they are religious.

Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.

Only the redeemed have the ability to like what God likes and to be pleased with what pleases God.

I really believe that a writer is someone who has trained their mind to misbehave

It is all about marketing; that is where the real craft comes in. The best actors do not necessarily become the biggest stars. And vice versa.

We have to be able to reject disproportionate and unjustified responses in the cyber domain just as we do in the physical domain.

When people asked me, "Do you get high to go onstage?" I could never understand the question. I mean, I'd been high since eight that morning. Going onstage had nothing to do with it.

If your child has a weakness, teach them how to turn it into a strength! The only Failure is not trying.

Trust your instincts, trust your judgment.

I've been in the danger zone