Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time.

The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.

We never look at just one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves.

That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe.

We only see what we look at. To look is an act of choice.

The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich.

To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal.

Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.

Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.

The past is the one thing we are not prisoners of. We can do with the past exactly what we wish. What we can't do is to change its consequences.

The human imagination... has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.

He only is exempt from failures who makes no effort.

Freedom cannot be trifled with. You cannot surrender it for security unless in a state of war, and then you must guard carefully the methods of so doing.

Anger is an appropriate reaction to racist attitudes, as is fury when the actions arising from those attitudes do not change.

If you play a king, it's better if everybody treats you like a king.

It is great to work on different scripts with different directors who have different styles. You get so much experience from that.

I always like the studio best, once I got the hang of it and the control. I like it because it's complete control

You're getting your weird all over me.

I got really involved in science research and the science of meditation.

I don't know what my path is yet. I'm just walking on it.

Corporate men and women, once divided by striking differences in opportunity for career growth, have come to share career chaos.