More and more I understand that it's very fine not to know where you come from.

Because we don't have much time together, I will give you as much love in a year as I could give you in a lifetime.

The purpose of the photograph is to reveal the love that is felt in a single image.

If you admire yourself in the mirror, let it be in fear and not delight, because the only thing that beauty will bring to you is terror of losing it.

Japanese women live in fear of making the least sound in a bathroom stall. Japanese men pay no attention to the subject whatsoever.

I never even dreamt of being a writer because I didn't feel allowed. When I was a child I was terribly ambitious, but I didn't know at all what this great thing would become.

Une histoire d'amour dont les épisodes ont été mélangés par un fou

I've noticed it a lot. I'm not someone who revises. It's always the first movement, it's that. It's an instinct. Either it works straight away, or it won't ever work.

When I want to be incognito, I don't wear any hat. Unfortunately, even without the hat, they now recognise me in Paris.

Luckily I haven't fallen into the trap, which has claimed so many writers, of living from day to day thinking 'Ah, I'll write a book about that.'

It's while writing that suddenly a point of view appears: 'So, that's what I really thought about this thing'. Then it feels part of me.

The romantic fairy tales we grew up with -- where marriage is the happy ending rather than the opening scene -- are not useful for grown-ups.

In the end, we all die for what we believe in... mostly because we all die.

You can model experiments on computers now and then execute them, and you don't actually need a fully stocked lab.

"What's miraculous about a spider's web?" said Mrs. Arable. "I don't see why you say a web is a miracle--it's just a web." "Ever try to spin one?" asked Mr. Dorian.

My favorite Extreme records were the last two. I can't listen to the first one.

All through history it's the nations that have given most to generals and the least to the people that have been the first to fall

I think documentary filmmaking is a braver way to make films because it's real, and you're really there.

Lions would have fared better, had lions been the artists.

I have a hard time picturing several aspects of the modern world without Luther.

The poor world is almost six thousand years old, and in all this time there was not any man died in his own person, videlicet, in a love-cause.