I clearly understand, first, that the real human being is a poet and, second, that [the tyrant] is the incarnate negation of a poet.

Religion is boring and alien to me and relates no more than a chimera to what is to me the reality of the spirit.

Let at least one word of my writings impregnate the reader's heart.

There is nothing new in art except talent.

Can someone explain to me why pilots feel they need to wake everyone to tell us that we are flying by a cloud that looks like a monkey.

If you avoid conflict to keep the peace, you start a war inside yourself.

Nothing would more effectively further the development of education than for all flogging pedagogues to learn to educate with the head instead of with the hand.

It didn't take long for the anger to put the happiness in a headlock.

Don't imagine that you'll discover {the truth} by accumulating more knowledge. Knowledge creates doubt, and doubt makes you ravenous for more knowledge. You can't get full eating this way.

Miracles never cease to amaze me. I expect them, but their consistent arrival is always delightful to experience.

We have to look forward and keep filming new films and not get stuck in the past.

A book… it’s a world all on its own too. A world made of words, where you live for a while.

The film argues to the young that the old were young once, too, and contain within them all that the young know, and more.