What do young girls dream of? Of the knife and of blood.

The true writer has nothing to say. What counts is the way he says it.

There is a famous Russian cartoon in which a hippopotamus, in the bush, points out a zebra to another hippopotamus: 'You see,' he says, 'now that’s formalism.

Memory belongs to the imagination. Human memory is not like a computer which records things; it is part of the imaginative process, on the same terms as invention.

the world is neither meaningful, nor absurd. it quite simply is, and that, in any case, is what is so remarkable about it.

Memory belongs to the imagination.

Deux me' tresou un peu plusse parent donc l'homme de la femme. Two metres, or a little more, separates a man from a woman.

On n'e chappe pas a' son sort. One cannot escape destiny.

Jesus was not a theologian. He was God who told stories.

Sometimes it helps to swim to the other side of our understanding just to make sure all is well

At the heart of all of mankind’s achievements is imagination.

People who passionately want to believe that the world is basically simple react to this with a fury that goes beyond what I consider appropriate for discussing a programming language.

Left Eye, man...who else has more personality than Left Eye?

I'm here helping Doug Forrester become the next governor of New Jersey.

The simplest of women are wonderful liars who can extricate themselves from the most difficult dilemmas with a skill bordering on genius.

The universe is more than mere matter in motion. It and we were brought into being by a Creator who seeks our good.

I'm an intellectual, but I've always had jobs that required physical labor above all else.

Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.