In exiling myself I am not exiling a monster, but a man whom society will not allow to live, since it considers one of the mysterious cogs in God's masterpiece to be a mistake.

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.

I sustain myself with the love of family.

I'd been through so much, falling short again and again, and only recently had found a place where who I was, right now, was enough.

Every year it takes less time to fly across the Atlantic and more time to drive to the office.

'There's no need for fiction in medicine,' remarks Foster... 'for the facts will always beat anything you fancy.'

If you're gonna build units for the rich, you're gonna build units for the poor.

Looking out a window from different vantage points changes what you see and therefore what you write.

Without asceticism, self-indulgence would be insignificant.

I believe in Eternity. I can find Greece, Palestine, Italy, Spain, and the Islands, - the Genius and creative Principle of each and of all eras, in my own mind.

But in the long term, I think it is improper to limit your future.

The white people have no right to take the land from the Indians, because the Indians had it first.