Nothing that surrounds us is object, all is subject.

Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.

The imaginary is what tends to become real.

My wish is that you may be loved to the point of madness.

What is admirable about the fantastic is that there is no longer anything fantastic: there is only the real.

I am the soul in limbo.

Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.

The mind, placed before any kind of difficulty, can find an ideal outlet in the absurd. Accommodation to the absurd readmits adults to the mysterious realm inhabited by children.

We all love conflagrations. When the sky changes color, it is a dead man's passing.

Humor (is) the process that allows one to brush reality aside when it gets too distressing.

It is more or less a given that nothing is less favorable to clairvoyance than the bright sun: physical light and mental light coexist on very poor terms.

When somebody says I wouldn't change a thing they're thinking of something they would change.

The ancient Greek "oral poets" all had this anxiety about the deficiencies of their memories and always began poems by praying to the muse to help them remember.

Teaching to unsuspecting youngsters the effective use of formal methods is one of the joys of life because it is so extremely rewarding.

Which only goes to show that the best of us must sometimes eat our words,' Dumbledore went on, smiling.

Stereotypes, they're sensual, cultural weapons. That's the way that we attack people. At an artistic level, stereotypes are terrible writing.

That's interesting to hear you say that because watching it [the Waitress] for the first time at Sundance was fascinating - it was so different from the experience of making it.

I think it's easier to make a film with 200 million dollars than 960 grand.

Our destiny is to be so intimately united with God that, as the mystics say, we not only see God's face but also see with God's face.

I'd say a watch is like a jewel of the man. It's really to distinguish yourself, because in your watch people can see who you are, more or less, what you want to represent to other people.