Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.

You have the army of mediocrities followed by the multitude of fools. As the mediocrities and the fools always form the immense majority, it is impossible for them to elect an intelligent government.

Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.

The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.

A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption.

Of all the passions, the only one that seems respectable to me is the passion for food

It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.

There is only one good thing in life, and that is love. And how you misunderstand it! how you spoil it! You treat it as something solemn like a sacrament, or something to be bought, like a dress.

Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.

Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.

Whether we are describing a king, an assassin, a thief, an honest man, a prostitute, a nun, a young girl, or a stallholder in a market, it is always ourselves that we are describing.

There's no reason to think we're going to stop loving each other, ' he said. 'And there's every reason to think that we won't.

I’m not weeping, I’m not complaining, Happiness is not for me.

We have defeated Saddam Hussein and Iraq. The good news is Iraq is ours, and the bad news is Iraq is ours.

I pretty much always choose characters. That's what I do. That's what I look for. I look for dynamics in a script and potential.

What we see changes what we know. What we know changes what we see.

A mind that is interested in changing...is interested precisely in the things that are at extremes. I'm certainly like that. Unless we go to extremes, we won't get anywhere.

Kobe's an incredibly talented athlete, and there are many more like him among today's players.

You've got to watch your mind all the time or you'll awaken and find a strange picture on your press.

I didn't know how a working-class girl like me could possibly make a living in the art world

After every storm the sun will smile; for every problem there is a solution, and the soul's indefeasible duty is to be of good cheer.