Love should not be polluted with friendship.

When we love each other we are immortal and indestructible like the heartbeat and the rain and the wind.

The best way to lose a woman was to show her a kind of life that one could offer her for only a few days.

One lost easiest what one held in one’s arms— never what one left.

the invisible storehouse in nothingness, called memory.

There is no guilt in feelings ever.

One always expects something else.

A neat little apartment with a neat little bourgeois life. A neat little security on the edge of the abyss. Do you really see that?

Religion is an insult to human dignity. Without it you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things.But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.

I hate vodka. It is the second worst thing to have come out of Russia, after communism - which isn't Russian anyway, Karl Marx was Russian.

Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.

Everyone is always in favour of general economy and particular expenditure.

Making a film, you're in a really dark tunnel and the only kind of illumination is the shared experience you're having with your fellow cast and director.

Now I know who you are U got nothin' on me, I see I should've known it from the start You can't tell me lies Don't even try cuz This is goodbye Goodbye

Even the lowliest, provided he is whole, can be happy, and in his own . way, perfect.

My sense of style is an old Polo shirt, jeans and, unfortunately for the longest time, white running shoes, which was not attractive. The one thing I've learned about clothes is to ask a girl.

Everyone says you should get a photo taken of yourself while you're pregnant. I've got a film [War of the Worlds]. It'll be nice for my daughter, too, to look at one day. She was in it.

I find myself born into this particular position. I'm determined to make the most of it. And to do whatever I can to help. And I hope I leave things behind a little bit better than I found them.