A man's heart is small, but it is surrounded by the immensity of its soul. Sometimes our words may appear silent, but they are certainly heading for infinity.

I look up to say something but he puts his finger to my lips and whispers, “Don’t talk. You’ll just spoil my fantasy of rescuing an innocent damsel in distress as soon as you open your mouth.

If I let you go are you going to hit me again?”“What do you think?”“Then I’m not going to let you go.

It could be that this record set before you now is a fiction.

The greater a man's - or boy's - ignorance of the world, the more certain he is that he sits in the center of that world.

There is no way to deter old age from its grim duty, but a life of accomplishments makes up in quality for what it cannot add in quantity.

... privacy is ... connected to a politics of domination.

Over the trackless past, somewhere, Lie the lost days of our tropic youth, Only regained by faith and prayer, Only recalled by prayer and plaint, Each lost day has its patron saint!

I want to get married before I'm 30. And I'd like to win an Oscar before then.

I was born in France. My father was a renowned French philosopher and journalist, and my mother was a painter. So I grew up in Parisian intellectual circles.

My mom loved the book [My beloved world] and she said to me, 'I never knew you had done so much.'