Every healthy man can do without food for two days — but without poetry, never!

Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.

Nothing can be done except little by little.

To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.

God is the only being who, in order to reign, doesn't even need to exist.

Dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music

The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep.

The devil's finest trick is to persuade you that he does not exist.

One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk.

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.

Music fathoms the sky.

When you’re given the gift of truth, you spend a lot of time trying to tone it down because it is already offensive enough.

Expect the unexpected.

I did not fall into love - I rose into love.

He who believes he can and he who believes he cannot are both correct.

You would know the secret of death. But how shall you find it unless you seek it in the heart of life.

In this world, you get what you pay for.

From your past emerges the present, and from the present is born your future.

I think my family, especially having three teenage sons, keeps my cooking at home grounded and very approachable. I'm definitely not making spumas in my kitchen, that's for sure!

I wouldn't mind taking a rest for three or four months, but I have to keep on making films for the sake of my crew, who just wait for the next film because they're not on a fixed salary.

Yeah, I had top-secret clearance and everything.