There is no complete life. There are only fragments. We are born to have nothing, to have it pour through our hands. And yet, this pouring, this flood of encounters, struggles, dreams...

There comes a time when you realize that everything is a dream, and only those things preserved in writing have any possibility of being real.

Love must wait; it must break one’s bones.

Women fall in love when they get to know you. Men are just the opposite. When they finally know you they're ready to leave

Sometimes you are aware when your great moments are happening, and sometimes they rise from the past. Perhaps it's the same with people.

I'm a frotteur, someone who likes to rub words in his hand, to turn them around and feel them, to wonder if that really is the best word possible.

I deem as heroic those who have the harder task, face it unflinchingly and live. In this world women do that.

Dresscodes are for styleless people.

Hope but not enthusiasm is the proper state for the writer.

What is the ultimate impulse to write? Because all this is going to vanish.

I like aristocracy. I like the beauty of aristocracy. I like the hierarchical feeling.

One who has a clear mind can never be fooled by his senses.

What is great about art and artists is that we get to ask the questions, even though we may never know the answers.

A picture is an artificial work, outside nature. It calls for as much cunning as the commission of a crime.

A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies, becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and for others.

America is supposed to be given over to ugliness. There are a good many ugly things there and the ugliest are the most pretentious.

Be yourself & you can be anything.

The idea of transformation - playing something I'm not - is the bit I enjoy most about acting.

Most people are sceptical about the wrong things and gullible about the wrong things.

He knows that the most important words in all languages are the small words.

It's about doing something larger than yourself. It's about serving this world, helping others.