A genius knows how to make himself easily understood without being obvious about it.

We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck, and, ask anyone, the house is never burgled, and the ship never goes down.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

However tight I shut my eyes, there will always be a stray dog somewhere in the world who'll stop me being happy.

Believe me; all evil comes from the old. They grow fat on ideas and young men die of them.

The object of art is to give life a shape.

Beauty is one of the rare things that do not lead to doubt of God.

Our entire life, with our fine moral code and our precious freedom, consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.

Each of us has a day .. when he has to accept, finally, the fact that he is a man.

The only immorality is not to do what one has to do when one has to do it.

The object of art is to give life shape.

Animal rage is scary, but not as scary as control.

Ah sorts of allowances are made for the illusions of youth and none or almost none for the disenchantments of age.

I think an artist is anybody who does something well, like if you cook well.

I think I'm a very solitary person. To actually not be anonymous is a bit claustrophobic for me.

I have a fetish for damsels in distress.” “Don’t be sexist.” “Not at all. My services are also available to gentlemen in distress. It’s an equal opportunity fetish.

I want you to stay. I never want there to be a time when we don't share space.

The rest were vulgar deaths unknown to fame.

Liberty of conscience is nowadays only understood to be the liberty of believing what men please, but also of endeavoring to propagate that belief as much as they can.

You've got to keep your body active, even if that means just turning on some music and dancing for an hour. ...That's how you;ll prepare your bodies and your minds for greatness.

If youth did not matter so much to itself, it would never have the heart to go on.