A person has no need of sincerity, nor even of skill in lying, in order to be loved. Here I mean by love reciprocal torture.

The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.

It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.

Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination.

Every woman feels that the greater her power over a man, the more impossible it is to leave him except by sudden flight: a fugitive precisely because a queen.

But I consoled myself with the reflexion that in spite of everything she was for me the real point of intersection between reality and dream.

So difficult is it for us to know, with the dead as with the living, whether a thing would cause them joy or sorrow!

She was capable of causing me pain, but no longer any joy. Pain alone kept my wearisome attachment alive.

As with the future, it is not all at once but grain by grain that one savours the past.

I could no longer desire physically without feeling a need for her, without suffering from her absence.

I must choose to cease from suffering or to cease from loving.

When you understand the value of time, the resource and the wealth of time, you will be running away from the crowd, you will be running away from distractions.

The more we construct lives that prioritize safety, the bigger the prison we construct around ourselves.

To me, little Mike Wazowski is one of the best characters I ever got to play because he was funny. He was outrageous. He got angry. He was romantic. He was a full, well-rounded character.

When you have momentum going, play the momentum

I don't copy recipes without trying them out. I don't reprint without trying them again.

I think that if you can roast a chicken, you can get whatever you want out of a woman.

When you're choosing the track list and the sequencing, it's important to make sure that there's some strong concepts on there and that it matters and it says something... that it sticks with people.

I had some airline stock, but the airlines tanked. I didn't have a lot of money in them, though.

We have become so dependent on technology. I am not fond of technology myself, and I do not have a smart phone.

The world wavered and quivered and threatened to burst into flames.