I am so used to plunging into the unknown that any other surroundings and form of existence strike me as exotic and unsuitable for human beings.

I believe the common denominator of the Universe is not harmony, but chaos, hostility and murder.

I don't spend sleepless nights over getting very bad reviews.

People think we had a love-hate relationship. Well, I did not love him, nor did I hate him. We had mutual respect for each other, even as we both planned each other's murder.

I know for sure that there is only one step from insecticide to genocide.

Someone like Jean-Luc Godard is for me intellectual counterfeit money when compared to a good kung fu film.

Read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read...if you don't read, you will never be a filmmaker.

Money doesn't make films. You just do it and take the initiative.

Facts do not convey truth. That's a mistake. Facts create norms, but truth creates illumination.

What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams.

Civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness.

Was that what it meant to be alive - moving from a brightly lit corridor into a darkened room at every step? Sometimes it felt that way.

Being a lone wolf is sometimes better than being in a pack.

In fact, effective solidarity with the poor, both individual persons and entire nations, is indispensable for the construction of peace.

Persuasion is the resource of the feeble; and the feeble can seldom persuade . . .

Make this simple rule the guide of your life: to have no will but God's.

Rain puts a hole in stone because of its constancy, not its force. Just keep knocking on doors until the right one opens

Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!

The Devil sends the precipices; God sends the bridges! When you come across a precipice, look for the bridge; it is somewhere there!

Music is fun. It should be fun. And that's the key, I think. Keep it as the thing you love.

The only process you've mastered is the process of elimination, and the only reason you've mastered that is because you can do it in the toilet.