In vain would I seek to discover Why sad and mournful am I, My thoughts without ceasing brood over A tale of the time gone by.

If you wish to strive for peace of soul and pleasure, then believe.

Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.

It must require an inordinate share of vanity and presumption, too, after enjoying so much that is good and beautiful on earth, to ask the Lord for immortality in addition to it all.

Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.

Every man, either to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion.

The deepest truth blooms only from the deepest love.

Money is the god of our time, and Rothschild is his prophet.

The swan, like the soul of the poet, By the dull world is ill understood.

Like a great poet, Nature produces the greatest results with the simplest means. These are simply a sun, trees, flowers, water and love.

Matrimony; the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented.

Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.

When you go into the world you would not even notice when you become dead

I've come to realize that love is tragic, somewhere down the line it's inevitable. Fight for it.

Myth must be kept alive. The people who can keep it alive are the artists of one kind or another.

I pretty much always choose characters. That's what I do. That's what I look for. I look for dynamics in a script and potential.

My projects are just side effects of what I obsess over, what I chat about, what random things pop into my head, what I dream at night.

Poverty is bitter, but it has no harder pang than that it makes men ridiculous.

The feeling I got from my research is that the victims of bombings end up becoming as alienated from the government as the terrorists who cause the attacks.

I find writing extremely difficult. I usually have to drag myself to my desk, mainly because I doubt myself. And it's getting harder because I want to improve with every book.

The universe cannot show you anything which you've intentionally chosen to block from your reality.