quotes about Damage Is Done

“I prefer to conduct my life based on how I treat people.”

“What a strange world it is where you can have as much sex as you like but love is taboo. I'm talking about the real thing, the grand passion, which may not allow affection or convenience or happiness. The truth is that love smashes into your life like an ice floe, and even if your heart is built like the Titanic you go down. That's the size of it, the immensity of it. It's not proper, it's not clean, it's not containable.”

“He who sees age on the outside of things is doomed to underestimate the vitality of raisins.”

“I never want to be told, "Hey, this is what you do best, and this is the only thing you're going to do." And there are other people that are put into that box. Or unable to navigate through all the different genres. Some people insist on being a tough guy even though it's not happening. People only want to see them in leading romantic roles. Yet they continue to try and force something that doesn't feel organic to people.”

“I'd rather get back to making art than talk about it.”

“Texas has done a very good job of securing their borders with the help of the federal government. California has done a good job.”

Source : "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. February 26, 2012.

“I can conceive of no nightmare so terrifying as establishing communication with a so-called superior (or, if you wish, advanced) technology in outer space.”

“Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.”

“Politicians read the polls that show 85 or 90 percent of the voters profess a belief in God, so they identify themselves with religion, often only to the degree necessary to reach the constituency they are targeting.”

“The egoist is fooled by no ideals: he discards them or uses them, as may suit his own interest.”