If someone were to pay you ten cents for every kind word you said about people and collect five cents for every unkind word, would you be rich or poor? – Author unknown, quoted by Jacob M. Braude
When your suffering is a little greater than my suffering I feel that I am a little cruel. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
Cinema is an old whore, like circus and variety, who knows how to give many kinds of pleasure. Besides, you cant teach old fleas new dogs. – Federico Fellini