I love Paris for the million reasons that everybody loves the city. It's an incredibly romantic and beautiful place.

Politicians were like talking dogs in a circus: the fact that they existed was uncommonly interesting, but no sane person would actually believe what they said

Whether you like it or not, Paris is the beating heart of Western civilisation. It's where it all began and ended.

You can't make accommodations in crucial situations and be heroic.

Wherever God has planted you, you must know how to flower - translated from a French saying

If you can live in Paris, maybe you should.

Live today, for tomorrow we die.

I have a very serious censorship office inside my head; it censors things that I could tell you that you would never forget, and I don't want to be the person to stick that in your brain.

The best Paris I know now is in my head.

Once you have your characters, they tell you what to write, you don't tell them.

One is what one has the nerve to pretend to be.

If you want to change your future, you have to change your now, and to change your now you must change your mindset.

In the world of primitive savages, religion and bigotry go hand in hand. But, in the world of civilized humans, religion and reason must go hand in hand.

A refrigerator is the opposite of a drug addict, because a refrigerator starts in a box and then moves to a house.

I think in the late '80s and early '90s horror was dead.

Who doesn't feel studious when he doesn't have a girl with a Riviera suntan?

You should figure out who you are and what you need, and then don't apologize for it.

Being an artist and having to be responsible for the art that you make is really quite challenging, and as you get older it becomes more and more difficult.

I would love to do comedy. I'm actually really animated and goofy. I talk with my hands so intensely.

Stop using sentences in your material world that reflect what it is you do not want to be.

America's support for human rights and democracy is our noblest export to the world.