“In self-defence, you know, all life eventually accommodates itself to its environment, and human life is no exception.”

“Everybody says women are like water. I think it's because water is the source of life, and it adapts itself to its environment. Like women, water also gives of itself wherever it goes to nurture life....”

“And the west, encumbered by crippling alliances, and hardened with a morality too rigid to accommodate itself to the swing of events, must ..... eventually ..... fall.”

“Life does not accommodate you; it shatters you. Every seed destroys its container, or else there would be no fruition.”

“Every way of life produces its own environment and in turn is influenced by that environment.”

“The story world isn't a copy of life as it is. It's life as human beings imagine it could be. It is human life condensed and heightened so that the audience can gain a better understanding of how life itself works.”