Dry happiness is like dry bread. We eat, but we do not dine. I wish for the superfluous, for the useless, for the extravagant, for the too much, for that which is not good for anything.

Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.

It is not enough to be happy, one must be content.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

To love beauty is to see light.

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.

Go out in the world and work like money doesn't matter, sing as if no one is listening, love as if you have never been hurt, and dance as if no one is watching.

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.

There is nothing like a dream to create the future.

I’m not that pitiful little girl you bullied last year.

To escape the damnation of hell is to accept God’s kingdom

Collage-making, for me, is basically an act of painting, allowing me to indulge in an appetite for immediacy.

You want to make a guy comfortable enough to confess to murder.

She was young and very beautiful, but pale, like the grey pallor of death.

Strong female leads are important.

To be the equal of one's opponent-this is the first condition of an honourable duel.

To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand. This is the sport, the luxury, special to the intellectual man.

the translator, a lonely sort of acrobat, becomes confused in a labyrinth of paradox, or climbs a pyramid of dependent clauses and has to invent a way down from it in his own language.

In my normal time, I like bacon sarnies, I smoke and I drink coffee. I do look after myself, but sometimes I allow myself to just let go a bit.