Unlike the puerile loyalty to a conviction, loyalty to a friend is a virtue - perhaps the only virtue, the last remaining one.

The ludicrous element in our feeling does not make them any less authentic.

When his wife was at his side, she was also in front of him, marking out the horizon of his life. Now the horizon is empty: the view has changed.

(God) being the old man invented in order to, and with whom to, hold long conversations.

Isn't that exactly the definition of biography? An artificial logic imposed on an 'incoherent succession of images'?

Never wait until the end of your life to realize you have not live to fully love.

Failure is not the final fall.

Well, I actually tell my son that I don't have any hair because he asked me the same question that I gave it to him when he was born, so he actually still believes that. He's five years old.

I cry all the time. Music makes me cry.

My insurance provider probably wouldn't allow me to go into a mosh pit anymore. My brain is insured by Lloyd's of London, you know what I'm saying?

Loving yourself, is loving the universe.

There is no origin for the idea of an afterlife, save the conclusion which the savage draws from the notion suggested by dreams.

There is nothing so deep and nothing so shallow which political enmity will not turn to account.

You never really know who you're going to be acting with, but that doesn't really matter. 99% of the actors I've worked with, and they number in the thousands, I've liked.

Constant reading will pull you into a place - a mind-set, if you like the phrase - where you can write eagerly and without self-consciousness.