"Kitsch causes two tears to flow in quick succession. The first tear says: How nice to see children running on the grass! The second tear says: How nice to be moved, together with all mankind, by children running on the grass!"

“Toilet paper - and no baby wipes - in the bathroom. If they're using dry paper, they aren't washing all of themselves. It's just unclean. So if I go in a woman's house and see the toilet paper there, I'll explain this. And if she doesn't make the adjustment to baby wipes, I'll know she's not completely clean.”

Source : "Howard's Den". Interview with Andrew Goldman, www.elle.com. August 1, 2007.

“People say that you can't change people's minds with a movie or book, but how do they get formed in the first place? They get formed by what we see and read. In a certain way, movies are ahead of their times. People make them and don't really know if the audience will respond to them. Once in a while, they do.”

“Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy.”

“Tiger Woods and John Edwards had a better year than the Stimulus bill.”

“Since the beginning of time mankind has used music and dance to commune with the spirit of nature and the spirit of the universe.”

Source : "Interview by Chaitu of www.goatrance.free.fr". www.goagil.com.

“Silence is the language of inertia.”

“Being an agent gave me a great sense of satisfaction”

“Education is paradoxical in that it is largely composed of things that cannot be learned”

Source : Roberto Calasso, William Weaver, Stephen Sartarelli (1994). “The Ruin of Kasch”, p.48, Harvard University Press