I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say.

The Louvre is a morgue; you go there to identify your friends.

I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.

Be yourself. The world worships the original.

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.

Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.

Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.

The composer opens the cage door for arithmetic, the draftsman gives geometry its freedom.

Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.

Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts.

Knowledge is the essence of organized information systems. Wisdom is the essence of knowledge and experience.

... the silenceHolds with its gloved handThe wild hawk of the mind.

A mentoring nurse to new doctors: "Check your own pulse first.

I capture women. I break them down. And I rebuild them. And I am not a good man.

Today's reporter is forced to become an educator more concerned with explaining the news than with being first on the scene.

Write as well as you can and finish what you start.

I just believe in working. I'm not one of those romantic explainers of my own individual point of view.

Originality is something that is easily exaggerated, especially by authors contemplating their own work.

Outside the practice of science itself, scientists have sometimes been the greatest offenders in adhering to dogmatic ideas against all the evidence.

No matter how nice the company one might be with, however, it is never pleasant to have a rifle pointed at one's back.