If a hermit lives in a state of ecstasy, his lack of comfort becomes the height of comfort. He must relinquish it.

The Louvre is a morgue; you go there to identify your friends.

I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.

Be yourself. The world worships the original.

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.

Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.

Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.

The composer opens the cage door for arithmetic, the draftsman gives geometry its freedom.

Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.

Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts.

Mankind will begin to recover the moment we take art as seriously as physics, chemistry, or money.

What other knowledge will my solitude and muteness bring? What other worlds?

Even in prosperous times the living robbed the dead

In the company of the Soul's inner guidance, let us celebrate all we are destined to know.

I like Penny. She's cool. Yeah, she dates some idiots, but, although, so have I. So yeah, I would be friends with her. We'd have a lot to talk about.

The laws do not take upon them to punish any other than overt acts.

And I like those authors best whose scenes describe my own situation in life-- and the friends who are about me whose stories touch me with interest, from resembling my own homely existence.

Revolution is not the uprising against preexisting order, but the setting up of a new order contradictory to the traditional one

I think she suspects something, though. We’ve had cherry pie for dessert five nights in a row.” His voice drawled, and my smile deepened.