Work a lifetime to pay off a house You finally own it and there's nobody to live in it.

if you love your country why is it necessary to hate other countries?

If I see an ending, I can work backward.

The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always.

I think it's a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one's self.

If you analyse anything, you destroy it.

Until an hour before the Devil fell, God thought him beautiful in Heaven.

The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.

The task of the real intellectual consists of analyzing illusions in order to discover their causes.

Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.

Everything we are is at every moment alive in us.

Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.

The brain heals the past like an injury.

An era can be said to end when its basic illusions are exhausted.

Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.

No one wants the truth if it is inconvenient.

I think the job of the artist is to remind people of what they have chosen to forget.

Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.

Any God I ever found in church, I brought in myself.