If the heart sorrows over physical loss, the spirit rejoices over hope of understanding.

Europe has resurrected its pagan gods.

The body is like the wife to the spirit. The two must cohabit to create new forms, but their pleasures rarely coincide.

History is scraps of evidence joined by the glue of imagination.

Gods have many faces.

When the mind grasps the universe, the senses retreat.

Men and women in their mutual attraction are driven to the very emptiness they are trying to avoid.

Once scientists and scholars invest parts of their career in support of a paradigm, it becomes a sort of a self-betrayal to abandon it.

Man is a mimic animal, happiest acting a part, needing a mask to tell the truth.

People embrace false magical theories in the hope something good will come out of them. In the most extreme of these, good comes out of them only at the end of this life, in paradise.

Patience comes when you wait.

Progress comes through capacity to learn, and is irresistible.

What's the good of reaching 90, if you waste 89?

I think the cultural programming on the ABC is one of the glories of the ABC.

Being part of the original Star Wars generation, I have always known a dark future.

Fragility is the quality of things that are vulnerable to volatility.

I think ethics is always there; it's not always a very thoughtful or reflective ethics.

The only goal is the decency of means.

I still like to live in a whimsical world that seems more romantic and fantasy-related because real life seems so hard

In fact, it is amazing how much European films - Italian, French, German and English - have recovered a certain territory of the audience in their countries over the last few years.