I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.
Astronomers are greatly disappointed when, having traveled halfway around the world to see an eclipse, clouds prevent a sight of it; and yet a sense of relief accompanies the disappointment.
What a strange life I lead- a kind of Cinderella-life-half glitter in crystal shoes, half mice and cinders! But it is a wonderful life all the same.
I thought that Mr. Clutter was a very nice gentleman. I thought so right up to the moment that I cut his throat.
I can't remember ever having a tragic demeanor. Although my life was tragedy.
America is simultaneously the most attractive and most repulsive place on the planet. It is most loved and most hated.
Our life is...a time in which sadness and joy kiss each other at every moment.
Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure Thrill the deepest notes of woe.
One common fate we both must prove; You die with envy, I with love.
Children come running to the truth But you've got to peel the skin to get the fruit And while one's living high another's grieving But what's sweet by morning is bitter by the evening Oh - What's sweet by morning is bitter by the evening.
Alas! when passion is both meek and wild!
The moment people come to know love, they run the risk of carrying hate.
Oddly, I'd been to most of the locations where I started photographing slavery many times before. I even considered some of them homes-away-from-home. But there can be dark corners in familiar places.
I call myself the Amusement Park. That's because I'm funny and scary at the same time.
In Israel, waves of anger and fear circulate all the time, but so do jokes and gossip and silky evening breezes. So, too, in America.
How much better is it to weep at joy than to joy at weeping?
Hate and love are reciprocal passions.
My mother, my father, I love 'em, I hate 'em, wish god I didnt have 'em, but thank god that he made 'em
'Buried Alive' is a little scary, but also a comedy at the same time.
When you're safe at home you wish you were having an adventure; when you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home.
Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.
There's a very fine line between pleasure and pain. They are two sides of the same coin, one not existing without the other.
I love walking down the street and seeing faces and drama and happiness and sadness and dirt and cleanliness.
I cry watching 'Camille' with Greta Garbo. I have to say that - while it might sound weird - it will be weird, but there is one movie I always laugh in, and at the end of the movie, I always cry, and I saw it, like, 10 times. It's 'Step Brothers.'
You can’t hate people unless you love them.
