What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying.

There is scarcely any passion without struggle.

Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.

Man cannot do without beauty, and this is what our era pretends to want to disregard.

Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.

A man devoid of hope and conscious of being so has ceased to belong to the future.

Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.

There is no longer a single idea explaining everything, but an infinite number of essences giving a meaning to an infinite number of objects. The world comes to a stop, but also lights up.

What I believe to be true I must therefore preserve. What seems to me so obvious, even against me, I must support.

Thinking is learning all over again how to see, directing one's consciousness, making of every image a privileged place.

Creating is living doubly. The groping, anxious quest of a Proust, his meticulous collecting of flowers, of wallpapers, and of anxieties, signifies nothing else.

He smelled like a wolf and I knew I should run, instead I opened my heart and invited him in for a bite.

Forever doesn't feel like eternity when you're by my side

We shape our buildings

Giving birth was easier than having a tattoo.

A kid is something precious, and you want to protect it and keep it fun. I'm not a dad, but I've seen people and how they behave with their kids.

A skill required to be president is to explain to the American people any given thing they do.

A blunt blade is more dangerous than a sharp one

Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.

I am the monarch of the sea, The Ruler of the Queen's Navee, Whose praise Great Britain loudly chants And we are his sisters, and his cousins, and his aunts!

The celebrity culture demands a camera-ready-at-all-times look or else the photo is circulated in a demeaning headline.