But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.

Spoon feeding, in the long run, teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return.

I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.

Ideas are fatal to caste.

Pathos, piety, courage, they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value.

The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.

One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.

Dreams feel real while we’re in them. It’s only when we wake up that we realize something was actually strange.

First rule of spirituality - thou shall not believe in your own bullshit.

Possibly we might even improve the world a little, if we got up early in the morning, and took off our coats to the work.

I am the assasin of my dreams.

I have a very varied taste in music. Everything from rap to classical to Latino to Rat Pack to jazz.

A lot of people still like Solaris, but I'm in active competition with them, and so I hope they die.

Only cinema narrows its concern down to its content, that is to its story. It should, instead, concern itself with its form, its structure.

We created a show and a scenario for college students where they can take what they learn in class every day and apply it to the real world.

It was just using the liquid shampoo - the Russians have one very similar to the stuff we use on the Shuttle - you just wet your hair with it and then wipe it out.

Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, who so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility.