Anxiety is the beginning of conscience, which is the parent of the soul but is not compatible with innocence.

In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman is disposed of.

Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come in monochrome.

I think it's one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves. We align ourselves with the angels instead of the higher primates.

I haven't changed much, over the years. I use less adjectives, now, and have a kinder heart, perhaps.

I see her as a series of marvellous shapes formed at random in the kaleidoscope of desire.

What a joy it is to dance and sing!

Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.

We must all make do with the rags of love we find flapping on the scarecrow of humanity.

Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation.

If Miss means respectably unmarried, and Mrs. respectably married, then Ms. means nudge, nudge, wink, wink.

You can not hope to arrive at harmony in your life while stirring up disturbances in anothers...

Love doesn't need a reply... ignorance and is it a romantic image?

To find out that you are empty of emptiness is to die into an aware mystery, which is the source of all existence.

My son always says I like very weird music.

I just want people to see me as a hard-working footballer and someone who is passionate about the game.

Women in general seem to me to be appreciably more intelligent than men. A great many of them suffer in silence from the imbecilities of their husbands.

Nothing in life has happened to you. It's happened for you. Every disappointment. Every wrong. Even every closed door has helped make you into who you are.

Knowledge comes by taking things apart, analysis. But wisdom comes by putting things together.

If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive.

Bill Clinton has been a true leader of the western world. He has been a friend and a counsel to me and other leaders right around the world.