All must yield to the weight of years; conquest is not difficult for time.

Light-enchanted sunflower, thou Who gazest ever true and tender On the sun's revolving splendour.

Restless sunflower; cease to move.

Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.

These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a pitiful frivolity, sleeping in the cold night's arms.

When love is not madness, it is not love.

What is life? A madness. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story. And the greatest good is little enough: for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.

In this treacherous world Nothing is the truth nor a lie. Everything depends on the color Of the crystal through which one sees it

But whether it be dream or truth, to do well is what matters. If it be truth, for truth's sake. If not, then to gain friends for the time when we awaken.

For man's greatest crime is to have been born.

Speak no evil of women; I tell thee the meanest of them deserves respect; for of women do we not all come?

People who swim very well in troubled waters are respected and celebrated than those who swim excellently in calm waters.

Unhappy times are the best for levity. You don't light candles in the middle of the day, do you?

If you are a beautiful lair, you are the most wanted person in the world.

In Roslyn, Pennsylvania, we started our real-life family circus. They provided the inspiration for my cartoons. I provided the perspiration.

You are told that you have to eliminate un-useful sentences, but as a writer you know how important details are.

A pen is certainly an excellent instrument to fix a man's attention and to inflame his ambition.

How far the existence of the Academy has influenced French literature, either for good or for evil, is an extremely dubious question.

The element of obsession is terribly important for an artist.

Sometimes the happiest ending isn't the one you keep longing for, but something you absolutely cannot see from where you are

I really think that reading a whole script is kind of prying and neurotic, don't you?