Medicine is my lawful wife, and literature is my mistress. When I get fed up with one, I spend the night with the other

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.

Do silly things. Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life.

Everything on earth is beautiful, everything -- except what we ourselves think and do when we forget the higher purposes of life and our own human dignity.

The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.

What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.

People should be beautiful in every way - in their faces, in the way they dress, in their thoughts, and in their innermost selves.

Life is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty.

God is at home, it's we who have gone out for a walk.

I'm 5-foot-5, and I'll wear a big parka and put the hood up, and nobody gives me a second glance.

Carbon negative power plants can provide energy while they overcome poverty and change economic values in the right direction.

If you can't invent the future, the next best thing is to fund it.

Many marriage tragedies are caused, not by lack of money, but rather by the mismanagement of it.

All you will get from me is death.

The truth is a rabbit in a bramble patch. All you can do is circle around and say it's somewhere in there.

Pierrot le Fou is something I keep coming back to. Its so surreal but still really engaging - it proves narratives within narratives are a landscape that can be pursued well.

The first monster you have to scare the audience with is yourself.

How well does your experience of the sacred in nature enable you to cope more effectively with the problems of mankind when you come back to the city?