I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is the language I don't understand.

No scientific subject has ever aroused quite the same mixture of hopes and fears [as atomic energy].

[T]he history of science has proved that fundamental research is the lifeblood of individual progress and that the ideas that lead to spectacular advances spring from it.

Everyone wants to change the world but nobody wants to start with themselves.

I believe that poems die the moment they are outwardly expressed.

Your heart is full of fertile seeds, waiting to sprout.

There is no creation without tradition; the 'new' is an inflection on a preceding form; novelty is always a variation on the past.

Impossible to spend sleepless nights and accomplish anything: if, in my youth, my parents had not financed my insomnias, I should surely have killed myself.

I hope my films will never completely be without the ability to mark anybody.

I never feel age... If you have creative work you don't have age or time.

It is impossible to be just if one is not generous.

I didn't aim at anything except good music.

Prince Charming can go suck rocks. I've met my true love and he's a contractor