The three major mother gods of the Eastern populations seemed to be generating and destroying entities at the same time; both goddesses of life and fertility as well as goddesses of death.

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.

We choose not randomly each other. We meet only those who already exists in our subconscious.

One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is 'What does a woman want?'

In the small matters trust the mind, in the large ones the heart.

The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.

We are what we are because we have been what we have been.

I prefer the company of animals more than the company of humans. Certainly, a wild animal is cruel. But to be merciless is the privilege of civilized humans.

Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.

Give away all your love and become the love, and love never dies.

Hitler is a prodigious genius.

Tolerance enlarges the circle of our acquaintances.

I think kindness is a sort of gateway virtue - having that simple aspiration can get you into deep water very quickly - in a good way.

Whole swaths of the book [Lincoln in the Bardo] are made up of verbatim quotes from various historical sources, which I cut up and rearranged to form part of the narrative.

I tried to freshen up a room, so I held a Certs in front of a fan.

I got deeply involved with the Trotskyists. I assumed simply that my enemy's enemies were my friends.

That's one of the best things about characters like Indiana Jones. I mean, he's funny. He's done really wicked things.

Sometimes you have to face up to your fears to realize that they aren't actually real.