Beauty is single. Only ugliness is multiple, and even then its multiplicity is soon exhausted.

For in Paris, whenever God puts a pretty woman there (the streets), the Devil, in reply, immediately puts a fool to keep her.

Yet, whether to the glory or to the shame of human nature, in what we call pleasure (with an excess of scorn, perhaps) there are abysses as deep as those of love.

They had...finished their lives before their death – which is not always the end of life and often comes long before the end.

Men are all the same. Novelty amongst themselves displeases and upsets them – but if the novelty is wearing a skirt, they go crazy f

He was terrified by the sublime horror of it, for intensity of feeling, carried to this degree, is sublime. ("A Woman's Vengeance")

My kids give me the balance to live right.

I have this belief that children become readers before they can read. They become hooked on books because they were read aloud to as a child.

Suicide carries in its aftermath a level of confusion and devastation that is, for the most part, beyond description.

Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion.

Movies are not scripts - movies are films; they're not books, they're not the theatre.

All my originality consists?in giving life in human fashion to beings which are impossible according to the laws of possibility.

The point isn't to deny our Egos, but to extricate ourselves from our exclusive preoccupation with them.

There's a lot of egos with actors. We certainly don't like to be directed by other actors, or anything like that.

I played trumpet in school once because I joined band because a cute boy played trumpet too. And I was really bad at trumpet.

Logic and truth are two very different things, but they often look the same to the mind that's performing the logic.