Life has always poppies in her hands.

I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.

Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

Oh, brothers! I don't care for brothers. My elder brother won't die, and my younger brothers seem never to do anything else.

If a man treats life artistically, his brain is his heart.

What fire does not destroy, it hardens

All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.

Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

Companies and leaders are role models - not just with the business community - but in the broader world.

Vanity, shame, and above all disposition, often make men brave and women chaste.

You have to continue and discover the grammar of things, of what we can see.

There's a kind of acting that goes on in my head when I'm writing a character where I put myself in their place.

At the end of the day, storytelling is actually very simple in its origin as long as there are people who want to tell stories and there are people who want to hear them.

I hate the PC, with a passion.

I had no idea that it was gonna take off the way it did. I thought we made a good movie.

Man has will, but woman has her way.

Our soulmate is the one who makes life come to life.

It seems everyone in the world is now a potential member of the paparazzi. Most of the time people ask if they can take a picture with their mobiles but increasingly they don't bother to ask.