Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

I am still against any kind of censorship. It's a subject in my life that has been very important.

Bernardo Bertolucci

Happiness is not in having being; it is in doing.

Lilian Eichler Watson

What men usually ask for when they pray to God is, that two and two may not make four.

Proverb

The monster of advertisement...is a sort of octopus with innumerable tentacles. It throws out to right and left, in front and behind, its clammy arms, and gathers in, through its thousand little suckers, all the gossip and slander and praise afloat...

Sarah Bernhardt

The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.

Arthur Schopenhauer

It's not the having, it's the getting.

Elizabeth Taylor

Our psychological reality, which lies below the surface, frightens us because it endlessly surprises us and drives us in a direction which society's rules and organizations define as wrong or dangerous.

Anais Nin, The Novel of the Futu

A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the facade of his appearance.

Alanis Morissette

It's not your pictures I like; it's your painting.

Albert Camus

What I couldn't help noticing was that I learned more about the novel in a morning by trying to write a page of one than I'd learned in seven years or so of trying to write criticism.

Philip Pullman

I can do whatever I want - I'm rich, I'm famous, and I'm bigger than you.

Don Johnson

To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else's type of thinking.

William James