Not to be such a perfectionist, it makes life hard. I'd like to be more relaxed about everything.

What have you done today, to make you feel proud?

It's what I'd like from my life - to live and learn, be wise and to go on without bitterness.

To question is to grow.

The ending of your story all depends on the beginning of ours.

What are we after all our dreams, after all our memories?

In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way.

Apathy's just a front. People offer it when there's something stronger hiding underneath. You have to work harder to tap into it, but then your performance has even more power.

While everyone has a right to his or her opinion, the people who are informed have more of a right.

Voting for the right is doing nothing for it.

I don't pay much mind to politricks. Never met a politician who wouldn't try to convince you that salt was sugar.

I would say that Edgar Allan Poe, [Georges] Perec, Thomas Pynchon, and [Jorge Luis] Borges are all boy-writers. These are writers who take... a kind of demonic joy in writing.

Through love the devil becomes an angel. Through love stones become soft as butter. Through love grief is like delight. Through love demons become the servants of God.

What is Paris? ... Where nobody throws stones, for all live in glass houses.