I wasn't that familiar with silent films. I didn't know, for example, how hugely popular silent films were in the 1920s, how people would go to the movies several times a week.

It's like swimming, underwater, this whole year. I just close my eyes. hold my breath, and keep kicking.

You could push people away, past their limits, even accidentally, and then it was just too late to get them back

Worrying was painful .... but compared to the alternative, a privilege

I am supposed to be where I go.

This life is mine because of good luck. And because I reached out and took it.

I always found Louise Brooks interesting. She was an icon of the silent - film era, and I knew she'd grown up in Kansas, and that she was smart and rebellious and sharp - tongued.

This is how it is now. This is my life.

Someone needs to give the Pope thirteen babies. Just for a week or so. See how he likes no birth control then.

One way to remain unfinished is to stop. the other is to go on.

Yes, Louise Brooks was beautiful and intelligent, and she could be very funny, but obviously there was a deep insecurity there, a real destructive rage and immaturity.

Though people are laughing at the dirt surrounding you, they are missing to see the seeds also planted, growing silently within.

The more completely we focus our attention on our Creator and Lord, the less chance there is of our being distracted by creatures.

Virtue and taste are nearly the same, for virtue is little more than active taste, and the most delicate affections of each combine in real love.

Fundamental violations of human rights always lead to people feeling less and less human.

Hatred is like fire, it makes even light rubbish deadly.

Lots of women love to accuse men of being immature when the fellow in question displays a reluctance to "commit"...

It takes us a long time to write a song that we all really like, so it makes sense that it would take a while for the listener to get there, too.

I looked back at the summit of the mountain, which seemed but a cubit high in comparison with the height of human contemplation, were in not too often merged in the corruptions of the earth.

What we are fed through the media I do not accept, unless you see it with your own eyes you cant trust anything.

Of course I have played outdoor games. I once played dominoes in an open air cafe in Paris.