I wandered through the streets thinking of all the things I might have said and might have done had I been other than I was.

Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum.

Strange how complicated we can make things just to avoid showing what we feel!

We have our dreams because without them we could not bear the truth.

It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.

we have so much to say, and we shall never say it.

Never do anything complicated when something simple will serve as well. It's one of the most important secrets of living.

For a moment I had a strange intuition that just this, and in a real, profound sense, is life; and perhaps happiness even - love with a mixture of sadness, reverence, and silent knowledge.

Everyone saves someone at least once. Just as he kills someone at least once. Even though he may not know it.

Anything you can settle with money is cheap.

Life is a disease, brother, and death begins already at birth. Every breath, every heartbeat, is a moment of dying - a little shove toward the end.

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

Every pot must sit on its own bottom.

That's wonderful, but my mind has been destroyed by alcohol.

From this day forward, speak to yourself in a way that you would someone you care about.

I prefer to go on trying all kinds of things, not to be told, This is the way it is done.

We all make mistakes, don't we? But if you can't forgive yourself, you'll always be an exile in your own life.

I mean, I made The Phantom, although The Phantom was, believe it or not, an independent film. It was just a very large, expensive independent film.

Writers rush in where publishers fear to tread and where translators fear to tread

It's empowering to be asked to look at what's possible, not told how to do it.

If youre not interested in life, then photography has no meaning