Peellaert's comic strips were the literature of intelligence, imagination and romanticism.

Life is a combination of magic and pasta.

There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the passion of life.

You have to live spherically - in many directions. Never lose your childish enthusiasm - and things will come your way.

A different language is a different vision of life.

Going to the cinema is like returning to the womb; you sit there, still and meditative in the darkness, waiting for life to appear on the screen.

The visionary is the only realist.

No matter what happens, always Keep your childhood innocence. It's the most important thing.

Regrets are a waste of time. They're the past crippling you in the present.

Nothing is more honest than a dream.

Never trust a woman who doesn’t like to eat. She is probably lousy in bed.

While it takes at least two to reconcile, it only takes one to forgive.

Don't clap I'm not a jazz band for Christ's sake.

One who is wise and disciplined, always kind and intelligent, humble and free from pride. One like this will be praised.

The atmosphere breathes rest and comfort, and the many chambers seem full of welcomes.

We are indebted to Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin for giving us a weapon. The weapon is not a machine-gun, but Marxism-Leninism.

I think part of being an adult is leaving the fairytale behind.

Horror films have been with us forever, so you can't say I originated that in any way, but it sort of brought back a classical way to make a horror film.

I like to hear melodies that go from one extreme to the next- saxophone to a bell to a whistle, for instance.

If I can't have the proletariat as my chosen people any longer, at least capitalism remains my Satan.

There is something I want-something I have come to get, and she fell deeper and deeper without knowing quite what it was, with her eyes closed.