There are two kinds of people in this world: people who want to be desired, and people who want to be desired so much that they pretend they don't.

I wonder whether there is such a thing as a sense of individuality. Is it all a facade, covering a deep need to belong? Are we simply pack animals desperately trying to pretend we are not?

I believe one has to escape oneself to discover oneself.

...What happens is of little significance compared with the stories we tell ourselves about what happens. Events matter little, only stories of events affect us.

I wonder if being sane means disregarding the chaos that is life, pretending only an infinitesimal segment of it is reality.

The eye always fills in the imperfections.

I long ago abandoned myself to a blind lust for the written word. Literature is my sandbox. In it I play, build my forts and castles, spend glorious time.

What is the purpose of a city if not to grant the greatest of gifts, anonymity?

I'm an atheist, a devout atheist, but I find religion fascinating. Primarily because of cultural references, as in: This is what we grew up with. Both on a personal level and a collective level.

For someone like me and my generation, you had to speak French to be sophisticated, you had to be lighter-skinned.

Fate would never permit happiness to a man of such talent-a content poet is a mediocre one, a happy poet is insufferable.

Our mind is like a MIRROR it reflects to the outside World what we think.

I actually get quite sad when I smell bacon.

There are people out there with three jobs and small children. Being an actor is a walk in the park compared to working as a cleaner overnight. I'm lucky I'm not plucking chickens.

Like any other actor, I draw on life experience.

When you sail on a boat you take with you the minimum of resources. You don't waste anything. You don't leave the light on; you don't leave a computer screen on... on land we take what we want

In this world, there are things you can only do alone, and things you can only do with somebody else. It's important to combine the two in just the right amount.

God is still in the process of dispensing gifts, and He uses ordinary individuals like us to develop those gifts in other people

The battle against the Devil, which is the principal task of Saint Michael the Archangel, is still being fought today, because the Devil is still alive and active in the world.

If you get your spirit and heart right, everything else flows from there.

I used to binge-eat and make myself throw up. I was a fat kid. Obviously I didn't quite master the bulimia.