The poet is at the disposal of the night. His role is humble, he must clean house and await its due visitation.

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.

Man may fall and fail, but God is always right. Man may die and perish, but God is always alive.

I came. I saw the enormous possibilities and power of the human mind. It is the biggest plot of fertile land in the world. We just have to find the right see and the right technique of cultivation.

If you banish the dragons, you banish the heroes...

The owls are gathering

A woman of honor should not suspect another of things she would not do herself.

If you insist that individual rights are the summum bonum, then the whole structure of society falls down.

There are many Iranians working at NASA. One of the engineers involved with the spaceship that went to Mars is an Iranian.

A lot of horrible, unfair, untrue things have been said about me. I can only say that the best revenge is success.

What I've learned to do is arrest my addiction - arrest it myself, so I don't get arrested.

It is pleasant at times to play the madman.