The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world.
Do you think I can read [Alain] Robbe-Grillet in an underdeveloped country? He does not feel himself maimed.
He who asks a question is a fool for a minute; he who does not remains a fool forever. When you realize that by changing your perspective, big things can be seen as little things, it becomes much harder to worry about anything. Commitment is an act, not a word.
Once freedom lights its beacon in man's heart, the gods are powerless against him.
Man is nothing else but what he purposes, he exists only in so far as he realizes himself, he is therefore nothing else but the sum of his actions, nothing else but what his life is.
If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.
What is life but an unpleasant interruption to a peaceful nonexistence.
The goodness you do might fail; but keep doing it, because the real failure is never doing goodness!
It annoys me how pretty my voice is. . . that sounds incredibly immodest, but it annoys me how polite it can sound when perhaps what I'm singing is deeply acidic.
I feel that when I am painting, it is a form of worship. I see how wonderful nature is and how wonderful art is. . . and by trying to produce these works of art, I feel that I am just showing my appreciation of these creations.
Laughter and bitterness are often the veils with which a sore heart wraps its weakness from the world.