I have a simple taste, only the best.

The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much.

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Be yourself; everyone else is taken.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

Chase away sorrow by living

Your soul: pure glucose edged with hintsOf tentative and half-soiled tints

I love cooking during Christmas, all smells like the hot apple cider, the hot spiced wine.

That's why I never became a director. I never had patience with people.

This life at best is but an inn, and we the passengers.

I don't know about the rest of you who have little voices, but something about mine made me feel completely compelled to listen to it.

If Dante was writing The Divine Comedy in 2013, he might very well have set part of it in the suburbs.

Some of my other stories are talked about as fantasy, some as horror, and some aren't talked about as genre at all. And the same story will be labeled differently depending on country.

Football is the No. 1 sport in America.

Music is enough for a lifetime - but a lifetime is not enough for music.