"Love is illogical. You fall into it like a manhole. Then you're just stuck. You die in love more than you live in love."

"Historically, revolutions are bloody. Oh, yes, they are. They haven't never had a bloodless revolution, or a nonviolent revolution. That don't happen even in Hollywood. You don't have a revolution in …"

"then he came back and faced her again, trembling. "'Nice,'" he said. "'Nice,' Is that what you want? You want the world to be 'nice'? Because listen, baby. Listen, sweetheart. The world is about as ni…"

"The lover who kills himself for a girl has an experience which is more complete and much more profound than the hero who overturns the world."

"What is a “heart of great forbearance?” As a practitioner, the first thing you should be able to do is to not fight back when you are beaten or sworn at—you must be tolerant. Otherwise, what kind of p…"