When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons.

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.

We choose not randomly each other. We meet only those who already exists in our subconscious.

One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is 'What does a woman want?'

In the small matters trust the mind, in the large ones the heart.

The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.

We are what we are because we have been what we have been.

I prefer the company of animals more than the company of humans. Certainly, a wild animal is cruel. But to be merciless is the privilege of civilized humans.

Universe is expanding to infinity without a center in space. How come humans claim a direction to their life?

I didn’t know what it was, who I was or who he was. I just knew what we could have become as one.

I just like to win basketball games. That's what motivates me.

When you think about a composer you know like Wagner or Pier Boulez or something like that most of the issues a composer is working with are about discreet, notated music that someone else will play.

The Holocaust is a sacred subject. One should take off one's shoes when entering its domain, one should tremble each time one pronounces the word.

Wouldn't a sailor laugh at you if you told him that the whole crossing depends on the first turn of the helm?

I've become really comfortable with my sexuality and making no excuses for it anymore.

I have been underestimated for decades. I've done very well that way.

In my work, there's a tremendous amount of rejection and waves of fertile and fallow times.

Shirt collars are very important to me. Putting a very soft shirt collar with a formal suit doesn't work for me at all.