Powerful states can maintain themselves only by crime, little states are virtuous only by weakness.
Mikhail Bakunin
People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.
James A. Baldwin
Demons manifest themselves in people in different ways. For instance, out of nowhere, somebody can become very angry for no reason. That's not... →
Stephen Baldwin
I just think that probably when somebody calls themselves 'born again' and kind of goes out there in a pretty radically zealous way... →
It's the actors who are prepared to make fools of themselves who are usually the ones who come to mean something to the audience.
Christian Bale
I really love storytelling, and I love the stories as they reveal themselves. It's an incredibly nourishing process; it's probably the... →
Alan Ball
I believe that if it were possible to scrap the whole of existing literature, all writers would find themselves inevitably producing something very... →
J. G. Ballard
Most writers flinch at the thought of being completely honest about themselves. So absolute honesty is what marks the true modern.
Presumably all obsessions are extreme metaphors waiting to be born. That whole private mythology, in which I believe totally, is a collaboration... →
When the modern movement began, starting perhaps with the paintings of Manet and the poetry of Baudelaire and Rimbaud, what distinguished the modern... →