Being a sick man is like being a log caught in a stream, Gilles. All the straws gather around it.

Shipwreck in youth is sorrowful enough, but one looks for storms at the spring equinox. Yet it is the September equinox that drowns.

for ... austere and gracious allegory, as for so much of its mysticism and its chivalry, its ardours and its endurances, the world is in debt to Spain.

Truth has as many coats as an onion ... and each one of them hollow when you peel it off.

But what was the desire of the flesh beside the desire of the mind?

True artists unburden their envies and work toward encouraging amateurs.

Woah, ' I said, blocking the doorway. 'You can't come in here. This is the girls' r

It's important for me to be with a musician or someone who has a creative mind.

It is the life of democracy to favor equality.

The psychiatrists examine you and ask you about your life and work, and then they decide whether your film can be shown or not. It's a horrible experience.

If we seek the Buddha outside the mind, the Buddha changes into a devil.

In the end it is worse to suppress dissent than to run the risk of heresy.

In abundance prepare for scarcity.

Energy is that amazing feeling that comes to life inside of you when you're happy and believe in yourself.