For what are we looking for if not to please? I do not know if the desire to attract others comes from a superabundance of vitality, possessiveness, or the hidden, unspoken need to be reassured.

Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance.

It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the "fronts" people assume before one another's eyes, and the "front" a writer puts on the face of reality.

To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.

There is a certain age when a woman must be beautiful to be loved, and then there comes a time when she must be loved to be beautiful.

I have loved to the point of madness; That which is called madness, That which to me, Is the only sensible way to love.

A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you.

One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter.

Art must take reality by surprise.

I always believe things are going to work out.

Love is worth whatever it costs.

Rome was not built in a day.

You can trust a crystal ball about as far as you can throw it.

Language, after all, is only the use of symbols, and Art also can only affect us through symbols.

Humor is a good way in general to get people together, I think. Of course, Danish humor is more ironic and sarcastic altogether.

I needed to stay in the character.

We can't be as good as we'd want to, so the question then becomes, how do we cope with our own badness?

Don't you think that it is necessary to have a sense of brutality in photography?

Charisma gets the attention of man and character gets the attention of God.

No city invites the heart to come to life as San Francisco does. Arrival in San Francisco is an experience in living.

I will not choose what many men desire, Because I will not jump with common spirits And rank me with the barbarous multitudes.