“There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.”

Two qualities essential for the artist: moralityand perspective.

One composition is meagre, though it has many figures; another is rich, though it has few.

Jacques said that his master said that everything good or evil we encounter here below was written on high.

The most dangerous madmen are those created by religion, and people whose aim is to disrupt society always know how to make good use of them on occasion.

I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it.

It is raining bombs on the house of the Lord. I go in fear and trembling lest one of these terrible bombers gets into difficulties.

Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.

All children are essentially criminal.

If you disturb the colors of the rainbow, the rainbow is no longer beautiful.

To say that man is a compound of strength and weakness, light and darkness, smallness and greatness, is not to indict him, it is to define him.

Does anyone really know where they’re going to?

Bad company is as instructive as licentiousness. One makes up for the loss of one’s innocence with the loss of one’s prejudices.

The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me.

And his hands would plait the priest’s entrails, For want of a rope, to strangle kings.

The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action.

There is only one duty; that is to be happy.

Another trouble with poetry – and I’m gonna stop the list at two – is the presence of presumptuousness in poetry.

I have a perfectly average skewed perception of myself. We often don’t know what we’re like.

We limit our success when we mistake the limits of our perception for reality.

Take one role model, as often as needed. Set aside a few minutes today to fill this prescription so you will have it handy when you need it. Think now about who your role models have been. What do they offer?

A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.

So there is a long struggle between the Dar al-Islam and the Dar al-Harb, which in effect was Christendom. This was the perceived enemy. And this has inevitably colored the perception of everything else.

I feel that TV and film feed off each other well. It’s more in the perception of the viewer than it is of the actor.

You can’t cover people with perceptions because we are all different.