Don't you know that every perfect life would be the end of art?

And what would you do, ... if you could rule the world for a day? I suppose I would have no choice but to abolish reality.

There is nothing in this world as invisible as a monument

Layer by layer art strips life bare.

One does what one is; one becomes what one does.

If there is a sense of reality, there must also be a sense of possibility.

Progress would be wonderful - if only it would stop.

One must conform to the baseness of an age or become neurotic.

Stupidity is active in every direction, and can dress up in all the clothes of truth. Truth, on the other hand, has for every occasion only one dress and one path, and is always at a disadvantage.

The thought is not something that observes an inner event, but, rather it is this inner event itself. We do not reflect on something, but, rather, something thinks itself in us.

Life forms a surface that acts as if it could not be otherwise, but under its skin things are pounding and pulsing.

Do not injure, abuse, oppress, enslave, insult, torment, torture, or kill any creature or living being.

What distracts us will begin to define us. We don't need to swing at every pitch.

Drawn by conceit from reason's plan How vain is that poor creature man; How pleas'd in ev'ry paltry elf To grate about that thing himself.

I think cinema should provoke thoughts, sure, but using it as I soapbox I think is the wrong place.

The essence of creativity is figuring out how to use what you already know in order to go beyond what you already think.

I like to dress for my shape - I think it's important for women to do that generally - it makes me feel good.

Only animals were not expelled from Paradise.

Baseball is a simple game. If you have good players and if you keep them in the right frame of mind then the manager is a success.

The best time to cry is at night, when the lights are out and someone is being beaten up and screaming for help.