War soaks into your bones, drills down into the marrow like a parasite. It blots your life like ink spilled on snow white paper, and it has its perils even long after you've given it up.

Work while you have strength.

Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.

I can do more good outside of prison... This country is worth dying for.

We all carry fault within.

I'm a very analytical person, a somewhat introspective person; that's the nature of the work I do.

We have [in Valerian] a bible that's 600 pages. There are five pages on each alien and where they come from. Even the address you can check on the map. On the star map. It's real numbers.

One of the great things about being willing to try new things and make mistakes is that making mistakes keeps you humble. People who are humble learn more than people who are arrogant.

So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.

Perceptions of impossibility are commonly disspelled by unmitigated courage and perseverance.

There are all kinds of writers and all kinds of methods, and any method that helps you to say what you want to say is the right method for you.