People seek escape in myth by any means at their disposal, including drugs, alcohol, meditation, and lies.

The Louvre is a morgue; you go there to identify your friends.

I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.

Be yourself. The world worships the original.

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.

Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.

Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.

The composer opens the cage door for arithmetic, the draftsman gives geometry its freedom.

Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.

Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts.

Have you ever realised that if a person can make you angry, that person actually controls you.

Clothing and features fade with time. I am happy with who I am today, and I am happy with who I will be tomorrow.

It's a rare thing graciousness. The shape of it can be acquired but not I think the substance.

No excuses and no sob stories. Life is full of excuses if you're looking. I have no time to gripe over misfortune. I don't waste time looking back.

I think the cultural task is to separate our impulses and needs and desires from the supernatural and, above all, from the superstitious.

Forgive us our trespasses," says Margarethe, "and get out of our way.

I knew that I wanted to create rich themes, and something that people might really relate to emotionally. That was the quest, authenticity, and then just to make the audience feel something.

The service at this airport restaurant is so bad I'm starting to panic that I'm a ghost.

I want to eliminate the basis of problems and basis of crime, and basis of terrorism.

Stop contemplating and start celebratingYeah, you gotta live before you die.