A child sees everything in a sense of newness - he is always drunk. Genius is nothing but childhood re-attained at will.

Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.

Nothing can be done except little by little.

To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.

God is the only being who, in order to reign, doesn't even need to exist.

Dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music

The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep.

The devil's finest trick is to persuade you that he does not exist.

One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk.

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.

Music fathoms the sky.

The fear of God is the beginning of knowledge.

If you do not feel ashamed of anything, then you can do whatever you like

People won't give their best unless their leader challenges them to do so.

My dad used to say makeup was a shallow girl's sport, but it's not. It's armor.

You say 'erbs, and we say Herbs because there's a f*****g H in it!

In the consciousness of eternity, time is not, neither is space. In man's consciousness there appears so much mercy, so much love, that these have been called time and space.

I think I've been very consistent in my values.

I finally did work out a very good relationship with my father, but it was rough growing up. We had a lot of conflict, and I think it surfaced in many of my works.

Film begins with DW Griffith and ends with Abbas Kiarostami.

The writing can be its own reward, as you discover more things that you can do. It counts a lot, though, when a story connects with a reader and they take the time to tell me about it.