Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear

Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.

The air of the New World seems favorable to the art of declamation.

It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.

I don't like work... but I like what is in work - the chance to find yourself. Your own reality - for yourself, not for others - which no other man can ever know.

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

We penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness

If you don't make mistakes, you don't make anything .

There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.

To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.

They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is his conscience.

The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.

Irony can be tiresome when what you really need is a hug.

Art for art's sake.

[On being the oldest living human being:] God must have forgotten me.

Unhappy is a nice word.

There’s nothing harder to do in animation than nothing. Movement is our medium.

Minor keys and drugs don't make a roller skate jam.

Whenever you read interviews with actors, they always seem to be given three months to do something - get fat, get skinny, learn card tricks.

The truth is the greatest enemy of the State.

The ability to throw 100 mph cannot be taught, cannot be learned, it can only be God-given.