Murdered by a kind of fear that seeks to obliterate any evidence that the world is different from the way they want to see it, from the way they want to believe it to be.

Knowledge has a materiality, not unlike the materiality of a ladder, that can be used to gain access to places and worlds that were previously unimaginable.

No one is exempt and everyone's pain has a different smell. At night, when all the colours die, they hide in pairsand read about themselves—in colour, with their eyelids shut.

Our sweetest experiences of affection are meant to be suggestions of that realm which is the home of the heart.

The Nobel Peace Prize has become hopelessly politicized. I think it cheapens the prize itself.

The great duties of life are written with a sunbeam.

The average woman would rather have beauty than brains, because the average man can see better than he can think.

The Biblical story of the creation is an excellent parable of movement. The work of art, too, is above all a process of creation, it is never experienced as a mere product.

God! Whose hand was I holding?

I have enough rhythm to blend at this point. I have enough rhythm to blend one song into another. But man, I have such respect for the art of deejaying. I hesitate to even call myself a deejay.

The criterion of action is that todays work should not be deferred till the following day.

Ultimately, it's not your job, as an actress, to satisfy people's expectations or image of who you should be. Even in your life, you are just who you are.