The immoral can no more earn respect Than the envious be rich.
Great wealth, like a crowd at a concert, Gathers and melts.
The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.
The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century.
The principles of a free constitution are irrecoverably lost, when the legislative power is nominated by the executive.
The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else!
You can't know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.
Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.
Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.
When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.
The notion of the infinite variety of detail and the multiplicity of forms is a pleasing one; in complexity are the fringes of beauty, and in variety are generosity and exuberance.
It would be difficult for me not to conclude that the most perfect type of masculine beauty is Satan, as portrayed by Milton.
For me, the short story is the depth of a novel, the breadth of a poem, and, as you come to the last few paragraphs, the experience of surprise.
I think each movie-making process is a very exhausting and satisfying and fulfilling experience for me.
There have always been poets who performed. Blake sang his Songs of Innocence and Experience to parties of friends.
There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience.
Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it.
I hadn't been a particularly precocious reader, but everybody else in my family was.
I think the family is the place where the most ridiculous and least respectable things in the world go on.
I think I realized early on that my family wasn't like other families.
