Attention to detail and a perfectionist instinct, far from stimulating action, are character qualities that lead to renunciation. Better to dream than to be.

The value of things is not the time they last, but the intensity with which they occur. That is why there are unforgettable moments and unique people!

Life is what we make of it. Travel is the traveler. What we see isn't what we see but what we are.

My soul is a hidden orchestra; I know not what instruments, what fiddlestrings and harps, drums and tamboura I sound and clash inside myself. All I hear is the symphony.

The slope takes you to the windmill, but effort takes you nowhere.

We never love anyone. What we love is the idea we have of someone. It's our own concept—our own selves—that we love.

There are no norms. All people are exceptions to a rule that doesn’t exist.

Everything interests me, but nothing holds me.

I am nothing. I'll never be anything. I couldn't want to be something. Apart from that, I have in me all the dreams in the world.

It's been a long time since I've been me.

I bear the wounds of all the battles I avoided.

Lately, I've become sort of a fatalist. Well, that was bound to happen.

All religions are born from individual experiences of divine awakening, not from some books.

If you lovesomeone, tell them.

First thoughts are the strongest.

All men are homosexual, some turn straight. It must be very odd to be a straight man because your sexuality is hopelessly defensive. It's like an ideal of racial purity.

Many fortunes, like rivers, have a pure source, but grow muddy as they grow large.

It's one of the great fallacies, it seems to me, that time gives much of anything but years and sadness to man.

One of the things I've always tried to do in filmmaking is that you don't tell the story, you try to show it.

Life was such a wheel that no man could stand upon it for long. And it always, at the end, came round to the same place again.

There is a spiritual obligation, there is a task to be done. It is not, however, something as simple as following a set of somebody else's rules