the world was in the hands of those who had courage to dream and to realize their dreams

We all move on the fringes of eternity and are sometimes granted vistas through fabric of illusion.

After all, we are not French and never can be, and any attempt to be so is to deny our inheritance and to try to impose upon ourselves a character that can be nothing but a veneer upon the surface.

Hegel remains of great importance to understand ourselves, but essentially because we have all grown out of a reaction against Hegel.

Nature holds no brief for the human experiment; it must stand or fall by its results.

To be true to myself, to be the person that was on the inside of me, and not play games. That's what I'm trying to do mostly in the whole world, is not bullshit myself and not bullshit anybody else.

I think of making love and making art as being very parallel. Even the most amateur attempt can be thrilling.

I didn't tell him. And I never told her the whole truth. What would it matter? There was nothing she could do; nothing anyone can do or will do.

I tend to elongate the sentences as I'm writing and editing, and there is just something about the feeling of writing longhand that I really love.

I'm apt to get drunk on words...Ontology: the word about the essence of things; the word about being.

Cameroon is stronger because it's a country of conquerors, of winners. Cameroon's players aren't necessarily very technical, but that when they play, they play to win.