Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art. Even more. It is the revenge of the intellect upon the world. To interpret is to impoverish, to deplete the world -- in order to set up a shadow world of meanings.

We are so accustomed to think of religion as a thing between individual men and God that we can hardly enter into the idea of a religion in which a whole nation in its national organisation appears as the religious unit.

William Robertson Smith

Society is founded upon cloth.

Thomas Carlyle

As long as he deceived himself about the truth, he could blame fortune and have confidence in the future. Now the clouds of madness were closing round his mind.

Hermann Bahr

An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.

Jean Cocteau

My humour has always come from anger, but I have to make sure I don't just get angry and jump on a soapbox.

Carl Hiaasen

He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.

Friedrich Nietzsche

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.

Iris Murdoch

I have had a love-hate relationship with my body.

Demi Moore

Go on thinking that you don't need to be read and you'll find that it may become quite true: no one will feel the need tom read it because it is written for yourself alone and the public won't feel any impulse to gate crash such a private party.

Dylan Thomas

We're seeing quite a lot of people who really would like a return to class-based politics.

Patricia Hewitt

Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we storm heaven itself in our folly.

Horace

The foundation of a financial fresh start actually has nothing to do with money or specific financial dos and don'ts.

Suze Orman