So what I had believed to be nothing to me was simply my entire life. How ignorant one is of oneself.

The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.

It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.

Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination.

Every woman feels that the greater her power over a man, the more impossible it is to leave him except by sudden flight: a fugitive precisely because a queen.

But I consoled myself with the reflexion that in spite of everything she was for me the real point of intersection between reality and dream.

So difficult is it for us to know, with the dead as with the living, whether a thing would cause them joy or sorrow!

She was capable of causing me pain, but no longer any joy. Pain alone kept my wearisome attachment alive.

As with the future, it is not all at once but grain by grain that one savours the past.

I could no longer desire physically without feeling a need for her, without suffering from her absence.

I must choose to cease from suffering or to cease from loving.

It was important to tell people. To let people know that this can happen. Your child's body can stop. Stop breathing, stop beating.

If I weren't making documentary films, I suppose I'd be teaching.

Wisdom and inner peace must be created by yourself.

O my brethren, my heart is enlarge towards you. I trust I feel something of that hidden, but powerful presence of Christ, whilst I am preaching to you.

The [Communist] Party has one objective: the creation of a socialist economy; and one means: the utilization of the class struggle.

I've always tried to write the kind of book I most loved to read: character-centered adventure.

I seek the truth...it is only persistence in self-delusion and ignorance that does harm.

In politics, nothing moves unless it's pushed.

He flipped the dail, and I crossed my arms over my chest as some vaguely European-sounding band sang about how video had killed the radio star. I wished someone would kill this radio.

I think the best thing you can do is be aware that as a first time founder you are likely to be a very bad manager.