I let him run on, this papier-maché Mephistopheles, and it seemed to me that if I tried I could poke my forefinger through him, and would find nothing inside but a little loose dirt, maybe.

He struggled with himself, too. I saw it -- I heard it. I saw the inconceivable mystery of a soul that knew no restraint, no faith, and no fear, yet struggling blindly with itself.

They were conquerors, and for that you want only brute force--nothing to boast of, when you have it, since your strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others.

The mind of man is capable of anything.

In the empty immensity of earth, sky, and water, there she was, incomprehensible, firing into a continent.

I don't think a single one of them had any clear idea of time, as we at the end of countless ages have. They still belonged to the beginnings of time—

I remembered the old doctor, - "It would be interesting for science to watch the mental changes of individuals, on the spot." I felt I was becoming scientifically interesting.

He was there below me, and, upon my word, to look at him was as edifying as seeing a dog in a parody of breeches and a featherhat, walking on his hind legs.

There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies - which is exactly what I hate and detest in the world - what I want to forget.

It was not my strength that wanted nursing, it was my imagination that wanted soothing.

We live as we dream--alone....

The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.

The Who got paid 4000 pounds during those days, but we always smashed our equipment that cost more than 5000 pounds.

For what can the damned really have to say to the damned?

I got together with Sylvère because I saw how I could help him get his life together. I'm drawn to you cause I see how you can help me take my life apart...

A director makes only one movie in his life. Then he breaks it up and makes it again.

I think the people who are out there for fame get themselves in a lot of trouble.

In America, we're trying to find a peaceful solution in the Middle East, and we're not going to be divided along any lines.

Through art we express our conception of what nature is not.

That's the way it is with entrepreneurial people. You try one thing, it doesn't work, you try another.

A frowning face can't bring out the beauty that you are.