People always have choices. They might not always have options, but they do have choices.

Absolute virtue is impossible and the republic of forgiveness leads, with implacable logic, to the republic of the guillotine.

For, though the room was silent, the silence of half a hundred cats is a peculiar thing, like fifty individual silences all piled one on top of another.

In exile, I have tried to profit by the past and prepare for the future.

Our achievements are generally limited only by the beliefs we impose on ourselves.

He who look at a woman who is not his wife as a mother; wealth that is not his as dust and all the men as himself... is a happy man. He, who sees all these things under a different light, is a blind.

A lion is not a lion is not a lion. As individuals, as mates, as members of a society, they're all very different.

For marriage the best man is the man within oneself. Most women need to develop their own 'masculine' qualities of independence, pride, courage and open sexuality.

When you hear bacon cooking....that sizzling sound isn't the fat cooking....that's applause.

My hands are guilty, but my heart is free.

Somebody once asked me if I have anything like faith, and I said I have faith in the narrative. I have a belief in a narrative that is bigger than me, that is alive and I trust will work itself out.