If the Barbarians are destroyed, who will we then be able to blame for the bad things?

The kind of power mothers have is enormous. Take the skyline of Istanbul - enormous breasts, pathetic little willies, a final revenge on Islam. I was so scared I had to crouch in the bottom of the boat when I saw it.

Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come in monochrome.

The one-eyed man will be King in the country of the blind only if he arrives there in full possession of his partial faculties--that is, providing he is perfectly aware of the precise nature of sight and does not confuse it with second sightnor with madness.

Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself.

The tiger will never lie down with the lamb; he acknowledges no pact that is not reciprocal. The lamb must learn to run with the tigers.

It shone on everyone, whether they had a contract or not. The most democratic thing I'd ever seen, that California sunshine.