I must warn you that the books I like are not necessarily the ones I think are the best. I like them for various reasons not always easy to explain.

It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.

Never stop smiling not even when you're sad, someone might fall in love with your smile.

All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret.

It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.

But that afternoon he asked himself, with his infinite capacity for illusion, if such pitiless indifference might not be a subterfuge for hiding the torments of love.

No medicine cures what happiness cannot.

No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.

Take advantage of it now, while you are young, and suffer all you can, because these things don't last your whole life.

Do not allow me to forget you

This was when she asked him whether it was true that love conquered all, as the songs said. 'It is true', he replied, 'but you would do well not to believe it.

I have three powers to win the world: my omnipotent love, my omnipresent kindness, and my omniscient compassion.

First of all, on a cinematic [level], the film answer to that is that Roger Corman was creatively responsible for a lot of cinema history.

I love New York. I'm a guy for whom a New York accent is a comforting thing.

When forces of oppression come to maintain themselves in power against established law, peace is considered already broken.

To have defined and sure opinions, fixed and known instincts, passions and character - all that is the horror of turning our soul into a fact, materialize it and make it external.

I want fame more than I can tell. But more than I want fame I want happiness.

Why should old people get [Social Security]? They just sit around all day doing nothing.

Life's too short. If you're passionate - stand up.

Think about laughing and laugh about thinking.

It is remarkable how very individual technique becomes in watercolour. Every man of personality finally arrives at a method peculiarly his own, as unique as his own fingerprint.