For some the fairest thing on the dark earth is Thermopylae, And the Spartan phalanx lowering lances to die.

You may forget but let me tell you this: someone in some future time will think of us

Beauty endures only for as long as it can be seen; goodness, beautiful today, will remain so tomorrow.

What cannot be said will be wept.

Someone, I tell you, in another time will remember us

Whatever one loves most is beautiful.

Once again love drives me on, that loosener of limbs, bittersweet creature against which nothing can be done.

Although only breath, words which I command are immortal.

Stand and face me, my love,and scatter the grace in your eyes.

All the while, believe me, I prayed our night would last twice as long.

Love shook my heart/ Like the wind on the mountain/ Troubling the oak-trees

Success is within reach of all people, but you can grasp it only when you realise the power within you.

One must have one's delusions to live. If you look at life too honestly and clearly, life becomes unbearable because it's a pretty grim enterprise, you will admit.

Being happy is a requisite for longevity.

I try to do things in comics that cannot be repeated by television, by movies, by interactive entertainment.

I did keep a travel diary once and it was a big mistake. All I remember of that trip is what I bothered to write down.

If you don't generate tension in the film to begin with... you can't really make a purse out of a sow's ear, you know.

Without men, civilization would last until the oil needed changing.

Be the one to stand out in the crowd.

If a spectator with a philosophical mind, somebody accustomed to reading books, gets the same kind of information in a movie, he might not fully understand it.

There are parodies of non-existent things.