Ideas are substitutes for sorrows...

For every death is a simplification of existence for the others, removes the necessity to show gratitude, the obligation to pay visits.

Every reader, as he reads, is actually the reader of himself.

But it is always easy to put together stories about a past which nobody any longer remembers, like those about journeys to countries where nobody has ever been.

And like an aviator who rolls painfully along the ground until, abruptly, he breaks away from it, I felt myself being slowly lifted towards the silent peaks of memory.

The beauty of images lies behind things, the beauty of ideas in front of them.

...pretention is very close to stupidity and that simplicity has a less visible but still gratifying aspect.

Sometimes happiness can come very simply, purely, merely if one is ready to embrace it with open arms.

You may have lost your way more than a little bit, but I believe you can find your way back. That's the trick. Finding your way back.

Follow your bliss. That which you love you must spend your life doing, as passionately and as perfectly as your heart, mind and instincts allow.

Come live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove Of golden sands, and crystal brooks, With silken lines, and silver hooks.

Good films demand to be looked at several times in order to be observed completely.

Live like someone died for you.

I have a kind of objective luxury about my career.

I have loved deeply. I have lost intensely. I will never love again. I get that love by people who care for me.

Art is the conveyance of spirit by means of matter.

The Divinity could be invoked as well in the English language as in the French.