What uniform can I wear to hide my heavy heart? It is too heavy. It will always show.

The Louvre is a morgue; you go there to identify your friends.

I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.

Be yourself. The world worships the original.

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.

Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.

Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.

The composer opens the cage door for arithmetic, the draftsman gives geometry its freedom.

Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.

Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts.

A mirror reflects appearance but only actions reflect beauty

A cell is just a room if you don't lock the door.

Lasse [Hallström] is really good at emotionally engaging an audience without hitting them over the face with it.

I may say that I think greed about poetry is the only permissible greed - it is, indeed, unavoidable.

My mother married three times. My dad is... I don't really have one. I mean, he does exist, but I have zero relationship with him.

On a cosmic scale, our life is insignificant, yet this brief period when we appear in the world is the time in which all meaningful questions arise.

Once a place becomes special, it's no longer special.

One thing I've found in any project is almost universally about three quarters of the way through - or maybe a little father, maybe seventh eighths on the way through - any project will explode.

The immature poet imitates, the mature poet plagiarizes.

Tony Abbott's books are so amazing!