Just as dumb creatures are snared by food, human beings would not be caught unless they had a nibble of hope.

The mind longs for what it has missed.

Outward beauty is not enough; to be attractive a woman must use words, wit, playfulness, sweet-talk, and laughter to transcend the gifts of nature.

Wisdom and beauty form a very rare combination.

Mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur.

Nothing is falser than people's preconceptions and ready-made opinions; nothing is sillier than their sham morality.

The world wants to be deceived.

Can't you see that I'm only advising you to beg yourself not to be so dumb

Women are one and all a set of vultures.

A man who is always ready to believe what is told him will never do well, especially a businessman.

Leave your home, O youth, and seek out alien shores. A wider range of life has been ordained for you.

But she always sweetly and tenderly called him Mungo for it was Mungo and his words of truth that had finally set her free.

My personal philosophy is that you do art to experience emotion that you don't have the luxury of experiencing in real life.

Don't forget either, you unhappy man, that voluntary confinement is a great deal harder to bear than compulsory.

I guess short films have a bright future... The advantage is budget.

Without deviance from normality, there can be no progress.

No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

If there's one thing I can't bear, it's when hundreds of old men come creeping in through the window in the middle of the night and throw all manner of garbage over me. I can't bear that.

I've got to relearn what I was supposed to have learned.

History is a series of approximations of the final singularity.

You should punish in the same manner those who commit crimes with those who accuse falsely.