In a world filled with mistrust, armed to the teeth and ready to explode, a realistic attitude might be to consider love as an imperative need.

What should move us to action is human dignity: the inalienable dignity of the oppressed, but also the dignity of each of us. We lose dignity if we tolerate the intolerable.

We lose dignity if we tolerate the intolerable.

But nobody is visually naive any longer. We are cluttered with images, and only abstract art can bring us to the threshold of the divine.

Perhaps only silence and love do justice to a great work of art

Love and the search for truth are unifying principles.

God waits for us to create him.

When egoism ends, that indeed is called the Absolute supreme Self (Parmatma). Egoism indeed is the illusion.

Poetry looking in the mirror sees art, and art looking in a mirror sings poetry.

A “brand” identifies how you are unique and different. It is an attention-getter to help you stack up against your competitors. It also shares with us what we can expect by doing business with you.

To struggle when hope is banished! To live when life's salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that's vanished- To endure, and go calmly on!

A lot of beautiful people are stupid. There are a tremendous number of idiots who look so good. It's frightening.

Dictatorships are never as strong as they think they are, and people are never as weak as they think they are.

Movies are the greatest art form the world has come up with yet. If you don't use them to the full extent and you don't give people as much as you possibly can, you're doing a disservice to it.

That's what my books are, now that I'm a grownup - mosaics of jokes.

I've read all of Sarah Waters's novels which have been translated into Korean.