"When I write now, I pretend I'm holding hands with the old me. I try to make sense of all those questions for her..."

“One must go for a film with an open mind; a film best impacts you when your mind is a blank page to the film.”

“In the Bible (Hebrews, 6:19), hope is ‘an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil.’ Here [in Watts painting], Hope is blindfolded, seated on a globe and playing a lyre of which all but one of the strings are broken . . . Hope’s attempts to make music appear futile and several critics argued that the work might have been more appropriately titledDespair. Watts explained that ‘Hopeneed not mean expectancy. It suggests here, rather, the music which can come from the remaining cord’.”

“Clay can be a metaphor for many things. I made it a metaphor for flesh and earth, and these are two kinds of generic givens of life, if you look at it poetically, biblically, the idea of the life of beings, of man, being transitory, the earth abides-ashes to ashes, dust to dust-man returns to earth, grows out of earth like a flower, wilts, goes back to the earth... We are frail, transitory creatures with aspirations of immortality, conscious of our inevitable death, and we have to deal with it somehow.”

“Strange and mysterious name to give to the spirit of Darkness! Lucifer, the Son of the Morning! Is it he who bears the Light, and with its splendors intolerable blinds feeble, sensual, or selfish souls? Doubt it not!”

Source : Albert Pike (2013). “Morals and Dogma”, p.281, Simon and Schuster

“If the race is to be freed from its crippling burden of good and evil it must be psychiatrists who take the original responsibility”

“When Misfortune is asleep, let no one wake her.”

“To be a young Gaullist is to be a revolutionary!”

Source : National meeting of UDR in Nice, June 1975.

“Death by hanging...well, in view of the whole situation, I never expected anything different. It's all right.”