How easy it is to invent a humanity, for anyone at all.

You can only be jealous of someone who has something you think you ought to have yourself.

But who can remember pain, once it’s over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind even, in the flesh. Pain marks you, but too deep to see. Out of sight, out of mind.

Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.

You can think clearly only with your clothes on.

We yearned for the future. How did we learn it, that talent for insatiability?

Fatigue is here, in my body, in my legs and eyes. That is what gets you in the end. Faith is only a word, embroidered.

Truly amazing, what people can get used to, as long as there are a few compensations.

By telling you anything at all I'm at least believing in you, I believe you're there, I believe you into being.

How furious she must be, now that she's been taken at her word.

To want is to have a weakness.

It is always better to look at a matter positively before ruling negatively on it.

Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself.

You know how they say that religion is the opiate of the masses? Well, I took masses of opiates religiously.

What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?

If I've done anything, I've brought passion to television.

The artist is a man who finds that the form or shape of things externally corresponds, in some strange way, to the movements of his mental and emotional life.

It takes 25 years to learn to draw, one hour to learn to paint.

There's a humble beauty about listening to period instruments that I like.

People want to go back to those old days, but it's probably not going to happen.

An ear for music is very different from a taste for music. I have no ear whatever; I could not sing an air to save my life; but I have the intensest delight in music, and can detect good from bad.