Living and dying are, in a sense, of equal value.

I want to write about people who dream and wait for the night to end, who long for the light so they can hold the ones they love.

Don't tell me anymore. You should have your dream, as the old woman told you to. I understand how you feel, but if you put those feelings into words they will turn into lies. (from Thailand)

It's just a feeling I have. What you see with your eyes is not necessarily real. My enemy is, among other things, the me inside me.

The whole terrible fight occured in the area of imagination. That is the precise location of our battlefield. It is there, that we experience our victories and defeats.

Have your dream...What you need now more than anything is discipline. Cast off mere words. Words turn into stone. (from Thailand)

What I was chasing in circles must have been the tail of the darkness inside me.

I just gave them a little scare. A touch of psychological terror. As Joseph Conrad once wrote, true terror is the kind that men feel towards their imagination. (from Super-frog Saves Tokyo)

It's not right for one friend to do all the giving and the other to do all the taking: that's not read friendship.

Opera lovers may be the narrowest people in the world.

Words left their mouths to hang frozen in midair.

It would seem that the scientific revolution involved not just a progressive transformation of scientific theory, but also a transformation in what were considered to be the observable facts!

No one will retrieve my lost heartamidst so many roots, in the bitter freshnessof the sun multiplied by the fury of the water, there the shadow lives that does not travel with me.

Some are born richWhile others poor

Still trying to save the world?” “Always, ” I said, “and in case you haven’t noticed, it’s working. The world is still here.

Almost nothing is as complex as the human personality, and no simple formula will ever cover every situation or every relationship.

I did this film for less money than it costs to stay in this hotel. We shot it in 20 days. We couldn't screw up takes for fun because we didn't have enough film.

By the way, the point between rationality and what we would call the irrational is a very difficult point to establish. There’s no specific line, as you know.

Nothing contributes to the entertainment of the reader more, than the change of times and the vicissitudes of fortune.

The great enemy of any totalitarian regime is normalization and trade.

Rich honesty dwells like a miser, Sir, in a poor house; as your pearl in your foul oyster.