In our day there are no longer any ideas, or they are scarcer than hens' teeth.

Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

I have no friends, there are only people I love.

Can the knowledge deriving from reason even begin to compare with knowledge perceptible by sense?

There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses.

Most people have never known solitude.... But there are a few of the other kind who can go back to their rooms anywhere and close the door on the whole world, and feel that they need never emerge.

We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.

There are other relations besides reality, which the mind is capable of grasping and which also are primary, like chance, illusion, the fantastic, the dream.

Everything that is not me is incomprehensible.

Geniuses are like ocean liners: they should never meet.

The painting of tomorrow will use the photographic eye as it has used the human eye.

Happiness isn't expensive, it just costs your will...

Life is beautiful. Death is astonishing.And love is the just breaths taken in between

To recognize great talent, we must encourage dreamers.

A very popular error: having the courage of one's convictions; rather it is a matter of having the courage for an attack on one's convictions.

All the words are not enough to get anything said.

It's much easier to point out the problem than it is to say just how it should be solved.

Content is built on communication. You can't learn anything if you haven't learned how to understand language, or to read.

An Irish wedding is a tame thing to an Irish funeral.

An older sister is a friend and defender - a listener, conspirator, a counsellor and a sharer of delights. And sorrows too.

I've been to Japan so many times, but I still constantly stumble across things that are so foreign to me.