For, to be a stranger is naturally a very positive relation; it is a specific form of interaction.

He is educated who knows how to find out what he doesn't know.

The intellectually sophisticated person is indifferent to all genuine individuality, because relationships and reactions result from it which cannot be exhausted with logical operations.

Modern culture is constantly growing more objective. Its tissues grow more and more out of impersonal energies, and absorb less and less the subjective entirety of the individual.

By my existence I am nothing more than an empty place, an outline,that is reserved within being in general. Given with it, though, is the duty to fill in this empty place. That is my life.

Every relationship between two individuals or two groups will be characterized by the ratio of secrecy that is involved in it.

Secrecy involves a tension which, at the moment of revelation, finds its release.

Secrecy sets barriers between men, but at the same time offers the seductive temptation to break through the barriers by gossip or confession.

Cities are, first of all, seats of the highest economic division of labor.

Discretion is nothing other than the sense of justice with respect to the sphere of the intimate contents of life.

In the immediate as well as the symbolic sense, in the physical as well as the intellectual sense, we are at any moment those who separate the connected, or connect the separate.

A weakness is a strength on overdrive!

Pessimistic" is a word for "realistic" that optimists use to make themselves feel better (about their unrealisticness).

I wonder if it is harder for a woman who was beautiful to get older or a woman who was never looked at.

fashion seems to exist for an abstract person who is not you or me.

My granddad used to say, If everybody liked the same thing, they'd all be after your grandma.

My uncle was a music producer and even he'd tell me to get a proper job. I tried to get him to give me five grand to make an album - it didn't happen.

Mirrors,' she said, 'are never to be trusted.

Thanks to the Japanese and Geronimo, John Wayne became a millionaire.

in February there is everything to hope for and nothing to regret.

I'm not writing novels, the screenplays are my novels, so I'm gonna write it the best that I can. If the movie never gets made, it'd almost be okay because I did it. It's there on the page.