When the mind grasps the universe, the senses retreat.

Europe has resurrected its pagan gods.

The body is like the wife to the spirit. The two must cohabit to create new forms, but their pleasures rarely coincide.

History is scraps of evidence joined by the glue of imagination.

Gods have many faces.

If the heart sorrows over physical loss, the spirit rejoices over hope of understanding.

Men and women in their mutual attraction are driven to the very emptiness they are trying to avoid.

Once scientists and scholars invest parts of their career in support of a paradigm, it becomes a sort of a self-betrayal to abandon it.

Man is a mimic animal, happiest acting a part, needing a mask to tell the truth.

People embrace false magical theories in the hope something good will come out of them. In the most extreme of these, good comes out of them only at the end of this life, in paradise.

The meaning of the words is necessary and not their extent.

The true moments of one's life were sadder for the fact that they must always be synchronized with the ordinary: with rail timetables, with breaks in traffic.

Nine Men in Ten are Suicides.

Wine, like the rising sun, possession gains, And drives the mist of dullness from the brains, The gloomy vapor from the spirit flies, And views of gaiety and gladness rise.

Parenthood has been the beneficiary of wonderful performances by child actors.

It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not.

If you spend a lot of time lying to people, you think a lot about what the truth means.

We can't buy one minute of time with cash; if we could, rich people would live longer.

If artists slowly learn how their business works, they'll have the ability to grow at any rate they can dream up, but they'll also have the ability to control the message whatever that might be.