Certainly I believe in luck. How else do you explain the success of those you don't like?

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.

We swallowed the chaos because we knew we didn't want to be ordinary.

If you didn't feel like your support system was strong enough, then getting yourself out of the situation was the best thing to do

All those windows, and not a cat in them. All that light to bask in, wasted.

There is a restlessness within us that cannot be satisfied until we rest fully in God.

A sense of a wider meaning to one's existence is what raises a man beyond mere getting and spending. If he lacks this sense, he is lost and miserable.

Advanced meditators are not even desirous of liberation anymore - that is just another attachment. There is no liberation. There is no bondage. These are just ideas of the mind.

If you go to Bed Bath & Beyond without a coupon, people will wonder if you're OK.

It is only the TRUTH that can make a man FREE, it is only the TRUTH that can make a man LIVE.

Out of the unreal shadows of night comes back the real life that we had known. We have to resume it where we had left off... p 207

Each of us, I suppose needs his illusions. Life after death. A maker of planets. A woman to love, a man to hate. Something sacred. But what a waste.