The joy of youth is to disobey; but the trouble is that there are no longer any orders.

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.

Liam learned that it was possible to appear to move forward when you were really standing still.

I am not aspiring to be a senior bureaucrat. It would limit my freedom.

I saw Eternity the other night Like a great ring of pure and endless light, All calm as it was bright.

No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys it, even if he doesn't get paid.

Power ... is not an end in itself, but is an instrument that must be used toward an end.

It is easier to brave and threaten, than to conquer an enemy.

What higher approval could a person enjoy than to know that what he or she has done is pleasing to God?

Of all the ways to lose a person, death is the kindest

What we live is what we believe. Everything else is just so much religious talk.

Don't bother me while I'm eating, or when I'm coming out of the crackhouse or something. Just let me get going.