My wisdom is as spurned as chaos. What is my nothingness, compared to the amazement that awaits you?

I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.

A thousand Dreams within me softly burn

Come from forever, and you will go everywhere.

The only unbearable thing is that nothing is unbearable.

Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

True alchemy lies in this formula: ‘Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse’.

Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.

Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.

Je est un autre. (I is someone else).

Some old and unrealized ideas will undoubtedly be actualized when their time comes.

What lies before us? Horrible thoughts arise in my heart. If we had died before today we should have been happy.

There seemed to be no one in a position of power, from the Vatican to Wall Street, from Parliament to Scotland Yard to Fleet Street, who could think of anything better to do than abuse it....

There is no shame in preferring happiness.

A weakened mind always sees everything through a black veil. The soul makes its own horizons; your soul is dark, which is why you see such a cloudy sky.

Obeying an inalienable law, things grew, growing riotous and strange in their impulse for growth.

I loved what I did. I could've been secretary of state for ever.

It's a journey, it's a fight everyday. There was a real effort to stay in the program... So far this has been a very successful rehab.

I am an entertainer. Cinema is entertainment. It is nothing more than that.

I drink alone in my study, huddled close to the brazier.