"My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor." ― Manuel Puig Topic(s): Power Tags: somber, stories More From Manuel Puig "We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn’t use irony to reduce their power." "I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It’s closer to our dreams." "I like the beauty of Faulkner’s poetry. But I don’t like his themes, not at all." More In Power "A true king is neither husband nor father; he considers his throne and nothing else."― Pierre Corneille "The advertisers who believe in the selling power of jingles have never had to sell anything."― David Ogilvy "Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power’s disappearance."― Hannah Arendt