You have to be narcissistic to be an artist. You have to think you are the centre of the whole thing otherwise why do you create? The only thing is to recognise it, and then you make the best of it.

Life is too short to be lived badly.

The real war is not between the West and the East. The real war is between intelligent and stupid people.

All big changes of the world come from words.

Drawing is the first language of the human being before writing. It's a transcription of how the human being sees reality, not reality itself.

When we're afraid, we lose all sense of analysis and reflection. Our fear paralyzes us. Besides, fear has always been the driving force behind all dictators' repression.

Culture and education are the lethal weapons against all kinds of fundamentalism.

My mother always told me I had to do 100 times better than a man. I had to work hard at maths, and learn four languages.

The world is not about Batman and Robin fighting the Joker; things are more complicated than that. And nothing is scarier than the people who try to find easy answers to complicated questions.

The best thing I ever did in my life was to ask, 'Do I like everybody?' And the answer was, 'No.' So why should everybody like me? If people are against me, so what? I'm against them too.

Nothing's worse than saying goodbye. It's a little like dying.

If you can make a woman laugh, you can make her do anything.

He was smiling at her like she was something special. Did I agree with this smile? Maybe.

Nothing is more difficult and therefore more precious than to be able to decide.

Envisioning the end is enough to put the means in motion.

Education for all seems to be the product of a type of distributive justice that is in no way related to the individual.

Be encouraged. Your heart is writing a poem on the world and it's being turned into a thousand songs.

Youcanfooltoomanyofthepeopletoomuchofthetime. See Lincoln 510:35.

I was anti-intellectual to the nth. Basically I liked to dance and paint, and that was about it.

Everything that individuals ever say or write can be used against them at a later point.

In the world of entrepreneurs, you don't need a college education. You need a proper education.