I would willingly stand at street corners, hat in hand, begging passerby to drop their unused minutes into it.

Miracles happen to those who believe in them.

No artifact is a work of art if it does not help to humanize us. Without art...our world would have remained a jungle.

You can parody and make fun of almost anything, but that does not turn the universe into a caricature.

Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

Psychoanalysts are not occupied with the minds of their patients; they do not believe in the mind but in a cerebral intestine.

A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the oneself that there is no self left to die.

I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.

Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity.

There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man's reason has never learnt to separate them.

It makes me happy to encounter goodness, love of work, humane intelligence, and people no matter at what kind of job, be it ever so humble, or ever so exalted, who do it well and con amore.

Should we not invariably act in this life as though the God whom our heart desires with its highest desire were watching our every action?

My parents have been incredibly supportive from perhaps the first real independent decision I made to become a vegetarian at 11, which was certainly not consistent with their diet at the time.

The outpouring of support from health professionals who want to volunteer for Hurricane Katrina recovery efforts has been tremendous.

How many women are ready to admit that they are capable of changing the course of their existence by simply taking time to think?

What I ended up doing was becoming an actor who didn't mind doing other people's words.

In the theater, characters have to cut the umbilical cord from the writer and talk in their own voices

Don't use your words to describe the situation. Use your words to change the situation.

It's fun, in a way, to explore what's risky in one's life.

If we are to create peace in our world, we must begin with our children.

The fisherman fishes as the urchin eats cream buns, from lust.