Everybody is dealing with how much of their own aliveness they can bear and how much they need to anesthetize themselves.

Tragic heroes are failed pragmatists. Their ends are unrealistic and their means are impractical.

There is always a ..belief that by destroying the thing that we love we destroy our needs

The past influences everything and dictates nothing.

Monogamy is a way of getting the versions of ourselves down to the minimum.

The big secret about Art is that no one wants it to be true.

People change, but there really are limits. One thing you discover in psychoanalytic treatment is the limits of what you can change about yourself or your life. We are children for a very long time.

Believing in religion is like believing that adulthood is the solution to childhood.

The vocabulary of one’s self-criticism is so impoverished and clichéd. We are at our most stupid in our self-hatred.

Lovers, of course, are notoriously frantic epistemologists, second only to paranoiacs (and analysts) as readers of signs and wonders.

Transgression is a quest for solitude

The Every Single Women to whom I met they are not happy with their men, and the men either not happy with their women!

Those who serve others have purpose. Those who serve themselves are lost.

Soon after a heart-wrung decision something inevitably occurs to cast doubt on your choice. Holding steady against that doubt usually proves your decision.

No expectations. Ask nothing, expect nothing and accept everything, and life is very well.

Advice to artists: always take the opportunity to shut up.

The Palestinians are like crocodiles, the more you give them meat, they want more.

Words are not that important when you recognize intentions.

But hopes are shy birds flying at a great distance, seldom reached by the best of guns.

[Falling pound] makes us more competitive.

I wanted to do a period piece. I wanted to be on a show that people would actually watch, that was of quality.