I would love to have a long and serious conversation with the Pope. And Woody Allen, whom I have never interviewed. Then, after those two? Steve Jobs.
If you want to make people laugh, your face must remain serious.
Cultivating whatever gave pleasure to my senses was always the chief business of my life; I have never found any occupation more important. Feeling that I was born for the sex opposite mine, I have always loved it and done all that I could to make myself loved by it. I have also been extravagantly fond of good food and irresistibly drawn by anything which could excite curiosity.
Real love is the love that sometimes arises after sensual pleasure: if it does, it is immortal; the other kind inevitably goes stale, for it lies in mere fantasy.
The sweetest pleasures are those which are hardest to be won.
one who makes no mistakes makes nothing
After all, a beautiful woman without a mind of her own leaves her lover with no resource after he had physically enjoyed her charms.
The emerging whole manifests locally. It manifests in particular communities, groups, and, ultimately, in us as individuals.
Some sarcasm is best told simply. Some humor is best told big and some is best told small.
The biggest lie about grace that Satan wants the church to buy is the idea that it’s dangerous and therefore needs to be kept in check.
I advocate the abolition of all religions, without setting up anything new of the kind.