It hurts to love. It's like giving yourself to be flayed and knowing that at any moment the other person may just walk off with your skin.

Each generation has to reinvent spirituality.

There are more and more taboos about calling something, anything, ugly.

The moral pleasure in art, as well as the moral service that art performs, consists in the intelligent gratification of consciousness.

Each of us carries a room within ourselves, waiting to be furnished and peopled, and if you listen closely, you may need to silence everything in your own room, you can hear the sounds of that other room inside your head.

The principal instances of mass violence in the world today are those committed by governments within their own legally recognized borders.

Marriage is a sort of tacit hunting in couples.