There are too many souls of wood not to love those wooden characters who do indeed have a soul.

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.

Most of my influences are from the past.

An unread book does nobody any good

As has been pointed out with Libya, the debate over Libya, sometimes we allow diplomatic relations with imperfect regimes because progress can best be made through engagement instead of isolation.

Facebook is not an unstoppable juggernaut. There are a lot of other things people can do on the web.

There are monasteries in Japan where they teach Zen with rules, more rules than you can imagine, and you might feel comfortable with that. I don't teach that type of Zen.

You're a writer. And that's something better than being a millionaire. Because it's something holy.

Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.

Jesus didn't die to make us safe. He died to make us dangerous.

Wonder and humility are wholesome emotions and they do not exist side by side with a lust for destruction.

I think I'm probably much better at the boots and pocket knife thing than I am at the high heels and martini thing.