Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.
Our culture now wonderfully alchemically transforms images and history into artistic material. The possibilities seem endless and wide open.
What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
God gives talent. Work transforms talent into genius.
The elimination of the fear of death transforms the individual's way of being in the world.
Let's talk of a system that transforms all the social organisms into a work of art in which the entire process of work is included... something in which the principle of production and consumption takes on a form of quality. It's a Gigantic project.
No one can arrive from being talented alone work transforms talent into genius.
It is old age rather than death that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.
I stayed in Baghdad every summer until I was 14. My dad's sister is still there but many of my relatives have managed to get out. People forget that there are still people there who are not radicalized in any particular direction trying to live normal lives in a very difficult situation.