I felt I had to win. It seemed very important. I didn't know why it was important and I kept thinking, why do I think this is so important? And another part of me answered, just because it is.

Understand me. I’m not like an ordinary world. I have my madness, I live in another dimension and I do not have time for things that have no soul.

The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.

Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?

People are strange: They are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice.

Find what you love and let it kill you.

If something burns your soul with purpose and desire, it’s your duty to be reduced to ashes by it. Any other form of existence will be yet another dull book in the library of life.

Love is a fog that burns with the first daylight of reality.

Sometimes I feel as if we are all trapped in a movie. We know our lines, where to walk, how to act, only there is no camera. Yet, we can't break out of the movie. And it's a bad one.

You have to die a few times before you can really live.

I stopped looking for a Dream Girl, I just wanted one that wasn't a nightmare.

In the game of life, gratitude triumphs over fear anyway. Your move...

I had a real life completely separate from beliefs, from the common reality made up of shared beliefs...

...futility is being sorry while doing nothing to remove the cause ...

Never doubt the courage of the French. They were the ones who discovered that snails are edible.

An author must gorge himself on ten thousand images to select the magical one that can define a piece of the world in a way one has never considered before.

Most people argue over who's right, not about what the truth is.

I voted, always vote. It's very important to me. My kids, I take them with me since they were little, so they realize it's a responsibility.

Creatives are feared and ridiculed... and at the same time highly valued for their ability to see things that others do not.

I'm predisposed to think that as a people, we're hardwired to understand things through the telling of stories. I think that as human beings it's part of who we are.

We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values.