I had been taught to look for monsters and devils and I found ordinary people.

I like to look at how people work together when they are put into stressful situations, when life stops being cozy.

Art can make a difference because it pulls people up short. It says, don't accept things for their face value; you don't have to go along with any of this; you can think for yourself.

I don't know how to answer. I know what I think, but words in the head are like voices underwater. They are distorted.

I felt like a seed in a pomegranate. Some say that the pomegranate was the real apple of Eve, fruit of the womb, I would eat my way into perdition to taste you.

Happiness is a specific. Misery is a generalization. People usually know exactly why they are happy. They very rarely know why they are miserable.

Quest is at the heart of what I do-the holy grail, and the terror that you'll never find it, seemed a perfect metaphor for life.

I find pieces of myself everywhere, and I cut myself handling them.

Do you fall in love often?" Yes often. With a view, with a book, with a dog, a cat, with numbers, with friends, with complete strangers, with nothing at all.

I would eat my way into perdition to taste you.

Life cannot be calculated. That's the big mistake our civilization made. We never accepted that randomness is not a mistake in the equation -- it is part of the equation.

Once I had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: "No good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.

Inflationism is that monetary policy that seeks to increase the quantity of money.

The universe does not carry debts, it always returns back to you what you gave it.

Courage is never letting your actions be influenced by your fears.

Man is a dog's ideal of what God should be.

I come from a family where my father is a filmmaker and professor of film.

Oh, the shortcomings and inconsistency of the average human being, especially when this human being is a man trying to manage women's affairs!

I'm not an anarchist, but I believe that people don't want the royal family - the so-called royal family.

One major problem with any science is that people who don't know the conceptual history of their field go round re-inventing the elliptical wheel.

Ingrateful man with liquorish draughts, and morsels unctuous, greases his pure mind that from it all consideration slips.