dreams

"I take steroids because they help me an extra 5 percent. Women take the pill. They are somewhat similar. I do it under a doctor's supervision."

"He saw it all summed up in the blind marching of that nameless unit. A vision of gaunt shapes, sharp shiny steel, dim lamps flaring in the rain. The war machine was rolling."

"Friends, this body is so impermanent, fragile, unworthy of confidence, and feeble. It is so insubstantial, perishable, short-lived, painful, filled with diseases, and subject to changes. Thus, my frie…"

"Division has done more to hide Christ from the view of men than all the infidelity that has ever been spoken."

"The Weather Man - L'uomo delle previsioni"

"High priority will be given to the provisions of minimum needs on rural areas and to integrated rural development... the planning process will be revitalized."

"When we want to do something while unconsciously certain to fail, we seek advice so we can blame someone else for the failure."

"One must be an illusionary rather than a visionary."

"When you're a little weird, you aspire to be normal; when you're very weird, you aspire to be recognised for it."

"Normal is not something to aspire to, it is something to get away from."

"Painters and sculptors under the Nazis often depicted the nude, but they were forbidden to show any bodily imperfections. Their nudes look like pictures in physique magazines: pinups which are both sa…"

"I like good horror movies. They can exorcise our demons. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre doesn't want to exorcise anything. It wants to tramp crap through our imaginations and wipe its feet on our dreams.…"

"Flesh is our indisputable commonality. Whatever our race, our religion, our politics we are faced every morning with the fact of our bodies. Their frailties, their demands, their desires. And yet the …"

"The Mysteries are the Mysteries, and ultimately personal—maybe the most personal thing in the universe. Evangelism, in my opinion, is a failure of the imagination. Beware of prophets: the best visions…"

"Television? The word is half Latin and half Greek. No good can come of it."

"The actions that move the world have been prompted and inspired by dreams and visions. The search for the philosopher's stone laid the foundations of modern chemistry; modern travel and geography owe …"

"The Chartres apse is as entertaining as all the other Gothic apses together, because it overrides the architect. You may, if you really have no imagination whatever, reject the idea that the Virgin he…"

"The idea of economical reforms was not out of blue. It was there in the Congress election manifesto, which was prepared under Narasimha Rao's astute supervision. Then, I used to write the manifesto, a…"

"Radio through television becomes a species of Cinema. Why shouldn't Cinema, in turn, become a species of radio?"

"Last night, I tell you, to watch that thing on television as I did. To see those, those monkeys from those African countries— damn them, they're still uncomfortable wearing shoes!"