Physical love is unthinkable without violence.

When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.

But isn't it true that an author can write only about himself?

The longing for Paradise is man's longing not to be man.

I want you to be weak. As weak as I am.

Between the approximation of the idea and the precision of reality there was a small gap of the unimaginable, and it was this hiatus that gave him no rest.

Tomas did not realize at the time that metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love.

Our dreams prove that to imagine - to dream about things that have not happened - is among mankind's deepest needs.

Metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with.

True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power.

Looking out over the courtyard at the dirty walls, he realized he had no idea whether it was hysteria or love.

Jealousy often turns people into irresponsible storytellers.

What nature hath joined together, multiple regression analysis cannot put asunder.

We must therefore rediscover, after the natural world, the social world, not as an object or sum of objects, but as a permanent field or dimension of existence.

We have to hate our immediate predecessors, to get free from their authority.

We see an enlightened teacher to gain a sense of humor, to learn balance and proportion and of course to learn wisdom.

I'd love to be in another film, but they haven't asked me. I think it's a shame but the prospects of me doing another one now are remote. Please do campaign on my behalf.

There are eyes everywhere. No blind spot left. What shall we dream of when everything becomes visible? We'll dream of being blind.

Adventure today means finding one's way back to the silence and stillness of a thousand years ago.

Nothing is impossible until you quit or die trying.

You could transfer Congress over to run Standard Oil or General Motors, and they would have both things bankrupt in two years.