In France, you have 900 years of romantic love going back to the troubadours and minstrels that wrote stories of Lancelot and Guinevere. You have gallantry at the highest level.

I think people are more likely to think it's better to find something new. That mentality has affected all of our thinking.

For a French person, lack of desire in someone is really seen as a defect.

There is a belief that love has its own justification, that it should be experienced as passionately as possible. The French have a wonderful expression, amour passion, which is the ultimate.

Opportunity and risk come in pairs

Dust is the parent of a star!

I have interacted with the police complaints and internal affairs division twice and both times I came away with the opinion that I was dealing with a blatantly corrupt group of people.

My mom has since confirmed that my overeager go-to response - when I was going anywhere or had anything planned for me - was, "What's everyone else going to do?

Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.

I want to paint the air in which the bridge, the house and the boat are to be found - the beauty of the air around them, and that is nothing less than the impossible.

There is no triumph of good, and if there were it would not be a triumph of good.

Talent is a burden not a joy. I am not of this planet. I do not come from you. I am not like you.

I think it's hard for any parent to see anything negative said or done against your child and, when you can't directly do something about it, it's hard.

I had a period where I thought I might not be good enough to publish.