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

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.

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.

I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust.

Reasons are the fuel for goal achievement. Without a strong enough reason, it’s impossible to persevere.

If you hold a cat by the tail, you learn things you can't learn any other way.--Mark Twain

But also . . . I have plenty of people around me to talk to, and no one to be honest with.

...you can make little choices that can change the world to be a better, happier, lovelier place every day

I was the little, funny one. I felt I was the child among grown women.

Unless our hands go hand in hand with our heads, we will be able to do nothing whatsoever.

I feel the same way about clothes as I do about food. I want everything.

On the last couple of movies I made - big-budget Hollywood movies - I really missed being able to create my own material.

Shapewear is the canvas and the clothes are the art.

How in the world any one weighing 185 pounds can be cute is beyond me.