Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.
Faith in a better than that which appears is no less required by art than by religion.
Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness.
Colors answer feeling in man; shapes answer thought; and motion answers will.
Emotion turning back on itself, and not leading on to thought or action, is the element of madness.
One dupe is as impossible as one twin.
A man without earnestness is a mournful and perplexing spectacle. But it is a consolation to believe, as we must of such a one, that he is the most effectual and compulsive of all schools.
Each of the Iraqi children killed by the United States was our child. Each of the prisoners tortured in Abu Ghraib was our comrade. Each of their screams was ours. When they were humiliated, we were humiliated. The U. S. soldiers fighting in Iraq - mostly volunteers in a poverty draft from small towns and poor urban neighborhoods - are victims just as much as the Iraqis of the same horrendous process, which asks them to die for a victory that will never be theirs.
Historians in England will say I am a liar. But history is written by those who have hanged heroes.
I've got really prolific since I moved to Paris where I am living permanently, for the rest of my life, until I find another idea. I have really close women friends here: Valerie, Raymonde, not Joana so much, Maria Schneider, who was always a real heroine of mine who and has now become a close friend.
There is no past we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternal now that builds and creates out of the past something new and better.