Ouch! What are you doing, Karl, you broke my skull!

Life is too short to be lived badly.

The real war is not between the West and the East. The real war is between intelligent and stupid people.

All big changes of the world come from words.

Drawing is the first language of the human being before writing. It's a transcription of how the human being sees reality, not reality itself.

When we're afraid, we lose all sense of analysis and reflection. Our fear paralyzes us. Besides, fear has always been the driving force behind all dictators' repression.

Culture and education are the lethal weapons against all kinds of fundamentalism.

My mother always told me I had to do 100 times better than a man. I had to work hard at maths, and learn four languages.

The world is not about Batman and Robin fighting the Joker; things are more complicated than that. And nothing is scarier than the people who try to find easy answers to complicated questions.

The best thing I ever did in my life was to ask, 'Do I like everybody?' And the answer was, 'No.' So why should everybody like me? If people are against me, so what? I'm against them too.

Nothing's worse than saying goodbye. It's a little like dying.

Everything is sweetened by risk.

The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened.

Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.

Every episode of 'True Blood' is like shooting a low budget feature.

When you dream too much of the sun, you forget the trees.

Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.

Don't get married in a house where there is no toilet.

When you have a problem, rules don't solve your problem. It's caring and education.

But I refuse to believe that I am a better actor than myself.

If the guy in front of you at the polls has arm swords, you might want to considering filling out an absentee ballot.