When you're my age, you'll see that it is wiser to make your own decisions than let time make decisions for you.

‎He often envied people who hadn't read his favourite books. They had such happiness before them.

There's nowhere that life feels more eternal, your dimwit youth more important, than Paris.

Like everyone I slipped into adulthood like a delinquent through the back door.

It had been a perfect nap - the sort a man runs into now and again by chance.

Her strength was in the integrity of her actions; she never compromised what she believed she ought to do.

My ambition is to one day shed my wardrobe and figure out how to look like Gilles Bensimon - or a famous stylist - who travels with a Birkin bag and minimal accoutrement and somehow looks cool.

The two things, love and snow, that make the world look fresh again

When I was younger I always had a dark navy, black tie and everybody would look at me like it was odd, but now it is de rigueur. I'm sure it's my input.

‎'He often envied people who hadn't read his favourite books. They had such happiness before them.

I guess the lesson is you can’t go everywhere. You should still go everywhere you can.

Rousseau identified reason as the disease for which it pretended to be the cure.

A writer's mind is a place where demons kill angels in disguise.

I learned a long time ago that you have to be able to laugh no matter what. Otherwise you start weeping and never stop.

I read somewhere that some people believe that the entire universe is a matrix of living thought. And I said, "Man, if that's not a definition of God, I don't know what is.

Read properly, fewer books than a hundred would suffice for a liberal education. Read superficially, the British Museum Library might still leave the student a barbarian.

There are only two types of player-those who keep their nerves under control and win championships, and those who do not.

If you aren't overly effusive or really nicey-nice with the press, you get a reputation for being outspoken or difficult.

It's something I never dreamed I'd be doing, making movies.

Actually, in my own life I think I probably feign neuroses to be more interesting than I am.

If you are not a brand, you are a commodity.