Publicity is the life of this culture - in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive - and at the same time publicity is its dream.

The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.

We never look at just one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves.

That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe.

We only see what we look at. To look is an act of choice.

The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich.

To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal.

Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.

Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.

The past is the one thing we are not prisoners of. We can do with the past exactly what we wish. What we can't do is to change its consequences.

The human imagination... has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.

I'm sorry to say it, but it was hard on me to see life continue all around.

Great. Now the queen thought I was a misfit, too.

ONLY' having the Gift, people appreciate this madness as Art. Everybody wants to have Art in their lives, but no body wants to have what the Art came out from in their lives...

Pooh," said Rabbit kindly, "you haven't any brain." "I know," said Pooh humbly.

There is something in us that loves certain disasters and the fever of this moment and surrendering to that.

If you will relax and allow Law of Attraction to do the organization, the managing, then you can spend your time doing the things that please you.

By silencing the mind, we can experience real peace. As long as various kinds of thoughts agitate the brain, we don't experience 100 percent peace.

Luck is opportunity met by preparation - and to be prepared or unprepared is a personal choice.

Truth brings bliss, truth brings celebration.

Whether it was making my bed or making a movie, my mother and father never hesitated to say how proud they were of me, and that means so very much to a child.