It's easy to write one's memoirs when one has a terrible memory.

To be ready is one thing, to be able to wait is another; but to seize the right moment is everything.

No specter assails us in more varied disguises than loneliness, and one of its most impenetrable masks is called love.

It is better to put on the brakes sooner, for some fine day you begin to understand — to pardon everything — and then where is the charm of life, if you cannot love or hate any more?

I write of love and death. What other subjects are there?

To be practical in life means to take everything seriously and nothing tragically.

You never so much want to be happy with a woman as when you know that you're ceasing to care for her.

Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.

The principal task of friendship is to foster one's friends' illusions.

Sleep does make us all equal, it seems to me, like his big brother-Death.

Oh, we do not understand death, we never understand it; creatures are only truly dead when everyone else has died who knew them.

And he’d expected her to feel like heaven, plus nirvana, plus that scene in Willy Wonka where Charlie starts to fly.

The world is Trouble...and Grace. That is all there is.

As an actor, I think most people have a tendency to want to demonstrate that they can act, they can emote.

We believe what we want to, what we need to. The corollary is that we choose not to see what we'd rather pretend doesn't exist.

For to enter the palace of learning at the great gate requires an expense of time and forms, therefore men of much haste and little ceremony are content to get in by the back-door

Babies have much higher levels of stress in childcare.

When it comes to doing my job, I keep my ego in my handbag.

Really great people rarely leave a healthy organization.

The bagpipes sound exactly the same when you have finished as when you started

It's something that will never be finished. Something that I can keep developing...and adding to.