Sophisticating meat eating doesn't make it any less savage.

There are women whose love only ends with death.

The main thing for inner contentment is to be in a state of grace. And there is an artistic state of grace, for art is a kind of religion.

Can there be anything more sad than a girl dying on the day of her first communion, in her new dress. A little bride of death...

We think we've seen it all before, we think we know it all by heart.

I don't get it. It's a bunch of trees with leaves.

It was not the size of things that mattered but their perfection, it was not what one had that was important, but what one made.

...without knowing why, he yielded to the temptation of those lips and flung onto them, eating them, partaking of their sacrament... Eucharist of love with a red host!

When we use words like biophotonic matrix, we rarely consider a word can be a reality in itself...

He gave everything to everybody. Except to me.

There's night and day, brother, both sweet things; sun, moon, and stars, brother, all sweet things; there's likewise a wind on the heath. Life is very sweet, brother; who would wish to die?

Be passionate. If you are passionate, you will ultimately succeed.

Freedom is not given to us by anyone; we have to cultivate it ourselves. It is a daily practice... No one can prevent you from being aware of each step you take or each breath in and breath out.

Enjoyment of football is part of the social context, and I have lost my faith in this social context.

I knew that I lived in a country in which the aspirations of black people were limited, marked-off. Yet I felt that I had to go somewhere and do something to redeem my being alive.

If you fail to prepare, prepare to fail.

There is apt to be a lunatic fringe among the votaries of any forward movement.

Do not lose joy in life as you grow old in years. Let not your 'joie de vivre be crushed under the weight of years.