A woman is a branchy tree and man a singing wind; and from her branches carelessly he takes what he can find.

Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.

What the heart knows today the head will understand tomorrow.

We get wise by asking questions, and even if these are not answered we get wise, for a well-packed question carries its answer on its back as a snail carries its shell.

Let the past be content with itself, for man needs forgetfulness as well as memory

The duty of a lyrical poet is not to express or explain, it is to intensify life.

I hear a sudden cry of pain! There is a rabbit in a snare.

Finality is death. Perfection is finality. Nothing is perfect. There are lumps in it.

Women and birds are able to see without turning their heads, and that is indeed a necessary provision for they are both surrounded by enemies.

I would think Until I found Something I can never find; - Something Lying On the ground, In the bottom Of my mind.

Men come of age at sixty, women at fifteen.

For love I have invested my life with no return

Everybody has something that chews them up and, for me, that thing was always loneliness. The cinema has the power to make you not feel lonely, even when you are.

A microphone is to a comic, what a pen is to a writer. There's power in it.

I am truly horrified by modern man. Such absence of feeling, such narrowness of outlook, such lack of passion and information, such feebleness of thought.

If you don't believe in a line, then you come off as the loser.

The dead of midnight is the noon of thought.

[David] Bowie's last album "Blackstar" featured him backed by a jazz quartet.

The bringers of joy have always been the children of sorrow.

I get to play a lot of hysterics.

Being cool is when you win, you don't get too happy; and when you lose, you don't get too mad.