There is no guiding principle, because the work that is created in collaborations should be created from its own principles.
Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society.
The Mexican. . . is familiar with death. [He] jokes about it, caresses it, sleeps with it, celebrates it. It is one of his favorite toys and his most steadfast love.
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and pecularities, by eliminating different civilizations and cultures, progress weakens life and favors death. The ideal of a single civilization for everyone, implicit in the cult of progress and technique, impoverishes and mutilates us. Every view of the world that becomes extinct, every culture that disappears, diminishes a possibility of life
Believing ourselves to be possessors of absolute truth degrades us: we regard every person whose way of thinking is different from ours as a monster and a threat and by so doing turn our own selves into monsters and threats to our fellows.
Beyond myself, somewhere, I wait for my arrival.
The supreme value is not the future but the present. The future is a deceitful time that always says to us, 'Not Yet,' and thus denies us. . . Whoever builds a house for future happiness builds a prison for the present.
People think it's the mind that drives us. It is the heart. The mind is a slave to the heart. So check the condition of the heart.
Instead of your ego directing you and making countless mistakes, allow yourself to be guided by the invisible principles of the universe within your action.
We're looking for something that sounds like a member of the Republican Party. The reality is, he's playing for the Democratic vote at this point. . . but he has to give something to create energy among conservatives.
You know that expression, 'wild horses couldn't drag me away'? Well, let me tell you, that was obviously made by someone who's never been on the other side of a lead rope when a wild horse starts running.