As one scientist puts it, we can now assume that just as children need good nutrition and adequate sleep, they may very well need contact with nature.
That's how we stay young these days: murder and suicide.
I personally would like to bring a tortoise onto the stage, turn it into a racehorse, then into a hat, a song, a dragoon and a fountain of water. One can dare anything in the theatre and it is the place where one dares the least.
Banality is a symptom of non-communication. Men hide behind their cliches.
You've always made the mistake of being yourself.
Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A manifestation of eternity, and a sign of death as well.
Language should almost break up or explode in its fruitless effort to contain so many meanings.
It's pain that changes our lives.
It isn’t hard to find evil in this world. Evil is always more easily imagined than good, somehow.
She's the coolest person in the world. . . I don't date what the person does. . . You know what I mean? I could have been a zitty teenager and walked into a Tower Records, and we would have talked about Pearl Jam, and we would have fallen in love when we were 15. And that's when you know. It's like, oh, my God, game over. . . . Listen, there are a lot of women in this country, in many countries, who date men for their money. Okay? That's despicable. Right? That's not what we're talking about here. Whatever does it for you, man.
I loved journalism until the day my journalism teacher, a man I revered, came by my desk and said, 'Are you planning on going into journalism?' I said, 'Yeah. ' He said, 'I wouldn't. ' I said, 'Well, why not?' He said, 'You can't make a living. '