Pastoral Resources

When part of what you're trying to get at is the truth hidden under a taboo, or when you want to nail a hypocrisy, laughter is a very useful tool. I want to show the painful side of existence, but there is no question I also want to make people laugh.

I admit there's an element of brutality in all my work - it's part of the truth about human existence I always want to explore - but the last thing I'm trying to do is put on some kind of freak show, inviting people to get off on other people's pain and humiliation.

Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.

The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.

Just as everybody has the vote including women, I think children should, because as a child is conscious of itself then it has to me an existence and has a stake in what happens.

May my soul bloom in love for all existence.

The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.

Even before I came to Chicago, I had gotten interested in the existence of dispersion of prices under conditions which economic theory said would yield a single price.

When the French nation gradually came into existence among the ruins of the Roman civilization in Gaul, a new language was at the same time slowly evolved.

How far the existence of the Academy has influenced French literature, either for good or for evil, is an extremely dubious question.

I couldn't care less about fashion. If I had taken any clothes home, they would have remained in my closet for the rest of their existence.

The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.

I'm not a Hollywood basher because enough good movies come out of the Hollywood system every year to justify its existence, without any apologies.

There's always been some moron-who usually went by the name of 'producer' - who would have to justify his existence, and interfere.

Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being willing to receive answers, even if the answers hurt.

Shiva danced the world into existence... that's a very nice thought.

To advocate a New Order was to seek freedom and respect for peoples without prejudice, and to seek a stable basis for the existence all peoples, equally, and free of threats.

The Anarchists answer that the abolition of the State will leave in existence a defensive association, resting no longer on a compulsory but on a voluntary basis, which will restrain invaders by any means that may prove necessary.

The existence of an area of free land, its continuous recession, and the advance of American settlement, explain American development.

Life is a wave, which in no two consecutive moments of its existence is composed of the same particles.