Celebrity: I picture myself as a marble bust with legs to run everywhere.

The Louvre is a morgue; you go there to identify your friends.

I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.

Be yourself. The world worships the original.

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.

Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.

Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.

The composer opens the cage door for arithmetic, the draftsman gives geometry its freedom.

Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.

Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts.

One ordinary woman connected to an extraordinary God can make a difference

I just want to say that the only thing less popular than putting money into banks is putting money into the auto industry.

Hillary Clinton is totally controlled by Wall Street and all these people that gave her millions.

I don't write with any audience in mind. I just write. I take a chance on the audience. That's what I did originally, and I think it's worked--in the sense that I find there is an audience.

The worst disease in the world is hate. And the cure for hate is love.

When you write for children and young adults, you have much more affect and influence on them than when you write for adults. The books that get us through our childhood stay with us for life.

Everything has two sides - the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn.

People aren't honest about the horrors of fame. The downsides are so overwhelming that, for me, there is no payoff.

In America we're in this awful situation, and you know, I hardly get any royalties anymore because music is just stolen from the internet.

I'm not saying girls are perfect, because we all know that's not true. But why be unfaithful to her if she was true to you.