Authors communicate with the people by some special extrinsic mark; I am the first to do so by my entire being, as Michel de Montaigne.

The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.

My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.

There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.

The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.

When all one person do is complain, people don't want to talk or listen to them.

We have annexed the future into our present as merely one of those manifold alternatives open to us

The knife flaying the elephant does not have to be large, only sharp!

I like to laugh, I like to smile, and I don't take myself too seriously. I can be a goofball.

My studio is a laptop. Everybody I work with is the same. We make computer music, we're the laptop generation.

Any artwork needs time and patience and needs above a quiet mind.

If a book has no index or good table of contents, it is very useful to make one as you are reading it.

Actors always have opinions.

Not many people have had as much bad luck as I have, but not many people have had as much good luck, either.

Having been is also a kind of being, and perhaps the surest kind.