I used to think it was clever to confuse comedy with tragedy. Now I wish I could distinguish them.
Greece is like a mirror. It makes you suffer. Then you learn. ' To live alone?' To live. With what you are.
The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.
We all want things we can't have. Being a decent human being is accepting that.
The profoundest distances are never geographical.
Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because it is the one thing that stops women laughing at them.
One of the great fallacies of our time is that the Nazis rose to power because they imposed order on chaos. Precisely the opposite is true - they were successful because they imposed chaos on order. They tore up the commandments, they denied the super-ego, what you will. They said, "You may persecute the minority, you may kill, you may torture, you may couple and breed without love. " They offered humanity all its great temptations. Nothing is true, everything is permitted.
The atonement of Jesus Christ is the supreme act of love, the supreme example of selfless concern for others.
Little do you know what a gloriously uncertain thing law is.
The best zoom lens is your legs.
I have an immigrant story. Most people come here for economic reasons, or religious reasons, or racial reasons, or gender reasons, or one of those things. I had a good job in Paris, but America was, and still is, the golden fleece. And I've done very well!