No sooner is the rage of hunger appeased than it becomes difficult to comprehend the meaning of starvation. It is only when you suffer that you really understand.

We were alone. Where, I could not say, hardly imagine. All was black, and such a dense black that, after some minutes, my eyes had not been able to discern even the faintest glimmer.

Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.

There are no impossible obstacles; there are just stronger and weaker wills, that’s all!

Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.

He believed in it, as certain good women believe in the leviathan-by faith, not by reason.

How many things have been denied one day, only to become realities the next!

The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides.

Anything you can imagine you can make real.

All that is impossible remains to be accomplished.

We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.

Music is my enchanter, the seducer of my emotions, the fire and ice that moves me.

Beneath the people we think we are, there are funnier, happier, livelier people that we keep ignoring.

He that rides his hobby gently must always give way to him that rides his hobby hard.

Satire has its limits. It is really up to the people to make the change. The satirist's role ends at the screen.

Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man.

Don't speak ill of your predecessors or successors. You didn't walk in their shoes.

Man owes his success to his creativity. No one doubts the need for it. It is most useful in good times and essential in bad.

I was thinking about making a comeback, until I pulled a muscle vacuuming.

I’m no longer human and there is no past.’ (Acheron's litany)

I wear whatever makes me comfortable on stage, so that I feel confident. Some days it's a plaid skirt with a button-up and other days it's jeans with a hockey jersey and platforms.