On n'e chappe pas a' son sort. One cannot escape destiny.

The true writer has nothing to say. What counts is the way he says it.

There is a famous Russian cartoon in which a hippopotamus, in the bush, points out a zebra to another hippopotamus: 'You see,' he says, 'now that’s formalism.

Memory belongs to the imagination. Human memory is not like a computer which records things; it is part of the imaginative process, on the same terms as invention.

the world is neither meaningful, nor absurd. it quite simply is, and that, in any case, is what is so remarkable about it.

What do young girls dream of? Of the knife and of blood.

Memory belongs to the imagination.

Deux me' tresou un peu plusse parent donc l'homme de la femme. Two metres, or a little more, separates a man from a woman.

A language is a system of arbitrary vocal symbols by means of which a social group cooperates.

Having a child who is struggling doesn't make you a bad parent, just as being a child who is struggling doesn't make your child a bad kid.

It takes all the fun out of a bracelet if you have to buy it yourself.

I love music, singing, and playing piano (though I'm not very good). And I adore musical theater.

Every comedian dreams of hosting 'The Tonight Show' and, for seven months, I got to. I did it my way, with people I love, and I do not regret a second.

I am no man, I am dynamite.

People seem to get used to anything, and it is a short step from adaptation to attachment.

Only the hardest roads make us really feel that we are alive! Leave the easy roads!

Words have meaning, type has spirit.

It's your decisions, not your conditions, which shape your life.