“I love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries.”

it’s perfectly possible to hate one’s fat and to love one’s body at the same time.

Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.

Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.

Kindness and intelligence don’t always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.

There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.

to have a crisis, and act upon it, is one thing. To dwell in perpetual crisis is another.

Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.

Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.

In memory Venice is always magic.

Silence is the garment of light.

Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.

Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.

truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.

To sleep is an act of faith.

There is something worse than dying, and that is humiliation – at least so it seemed to me.

There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.

Bullies do whatever they can get away with and keep pushing boundaries until they meet resistance.

National boundaries these days are not that important because of transformative technological development. Now we are talking about the fourth industrial revolution.

The boundaries became constrictive in what I was doing, and if my faith grew, it was because I pressed some of the boundaries in ways I hadn’t felt comfortable or responsible doing that before.

One of the key things in the tech business in particular is that you need to be able to push boundaries.

I’m an artist who is always looking for what is possible. I’m always looking to extend the boundaries.

You lose your separateness, you lose your specialness, you lose the dream you have lived all your life. Eventually you lose everything that your mind has created and awaken to who you truly are: the fullness of freedom, unbound by any identifications, identities, or boundaries.

Ego is neither positive nor negative. Those are simply concepts that create more boundaries. Ego is just ego, and the disaster of it all is that you, as a spiritual seeker, have been conditioned to think of the ego as bad, as an enemy, as something to be destroyed.

The boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It’s unbelievable.