Why have I had this life? If I knew, I wouldn't have done it

The truth is, I can never die. For I will be in everything and see you in everything and watch over you. I am your reaction in the water of a mountain lake

I am your fairy tale. Your dream. Your wishes and desires, and I am your thirst and your hunger and your food and your drink.

One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real.

Put a bird cage near the window so that the bird can see the sky? It's much better to look than not to, even if it hurts.

I actually get venereal disease more often than most people catch colds.

You leap over the wall of one ghetto and find yourself in another ghetto.

Once, I took a taxi. I hate those limousines. They stink and their drivers have been driving dead people to the cemeteries.

I sell myself for the highest price. Exactly like a prostitute. There is no difference.

You don't need a framework. You need a painting, not a frame.

Sometimes my heart hurts so much, I beat it with my fists. I try to run. But you cannot run from this. It waits for you. Even when you think you have escaped it, it is there.

A King will have his way in his own hall, be it folly or wisdom.

Let a man turn to his own childhood-no further-if he will renew his sense of remoteness and of the mystery of change.

There is an irreplaceable ally. It's called the United States of America.

A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.

From the wrestling of his own soul with the great enemy, comes that depth and mystery which startles us in Hamlet.

I don't believe in fashion dictatorship, and I find that anybody who follows the dictates of fashion is a bit lost. I'm excited by style, not so much by fashion.

I have said it many times: the policy of exclusion and the policy of marginalization must end in Iraq.

I am just a copier, an impostor. I wait, I read magazines. After a while my brain sends me a product.

The great thing about marriage is the idea of really getting to know someone. And really getting to know a woman is a life long task.

For works of the mind really great there is no old age, no decrepitude. It is inconceivable that a time should come when Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, should not ring in the ears of civilized man.