...the real is coherent and probable because it is real, not real because it is coherent...

The flesh is at the heart of the world.

You cannot clean a dirty wall with dirty hands.

The passage of time is likely to make high-speed rail more and more desirable, making it critical that politicians of today think ahead to tomorrow.

My basic view of things is - not to have any basic view of things. From having been exceedingly dogmatic, my views on life have gradually dissolved. They don't exist any longer.

I foresee that the Andersen and Fairy Tale fashion will not last; none of these things away from general nature do.

Forbid that I should judge others, lest I condemn myself.

Avoid internalizing society's sexism, racism, ageism - pick an ism, any ism.

Getting married is easy. Staying married is more difficult. Staying happily married for a lifetime is among the fine arts.

I think people have always loved things that are bigger than life, things that are imaginative.

As comedy presents the vital rhythm of self-preservation, tragedy exhibits that of self-consummation.

I am realistic – I expect miracles.