New York is the meeting place of the peoples, the only city where you can hardly find a typical American.

A man is whole only when he takes into account his shadow.

I am not a critic; to me criticism is so often nothing more than the eye garrulously denouncing the shape of the peephole that gives access to hidden treasure.

Time is a great conference planning our end, and youth is only the past putting a leg forward.

I talk too much because I have been made so miserable by what you are keeping hushed.

The unendurable is the beginning of the curve of joy.

The priceless galaxy of misinformation called the mind.

Our bones ache only while the flesh is on them.

The heart of the jealous knows the best and most satisfying love, that of the other's bed, where the rival perfects the lover's imperfections.

I have been loved,' she said, 'by something strange, and it has forgotten me.

This head has risen above its hair in a moment of abandon known only to men who have drawn their feet out of their boots to walk awhile in the corridors of the mind.

I was never aware of any other option but to question everything.

Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.

A political policy is equated with moral right, and opposition to it with diabolical malevolence.

A person in the business of defending criminal cases is going to live in controversy all of his or her life.

In a strange way the spiritual life isn't "useful" or "successful." But it is meant to be fruitful. And fruitfulness comes out of brokenness.

Geoengineering - the deliberate, large-scale manipulation of the earth's climate to offset global warming - is a nightmare fix for climate change.

As an actor there are no drawbacks.

Believe in yourself and negotiate for yourself. Own your own success.

We should not focus on ideas that divide us and pull us apart.

I worked with Paul McCartney for a while and saw what it does to you to be treated like a god for twenty years.