Age does not protect you from love. But love to some extent protects you from age.

Life is given to you like a flat piece of land and everything has to be done. I hope that when I'm finished, my piece of land will be a beautiful garden.

To go out with the setting sun on an empty beach is to truly embrace your solitude.

I shall die very young...maybe seventy, maybe eighty, maybe ninety. But I shall be very young.

As long as you don't make waves, ripples, life seems easy. But that's condemning yourself to impotence and death before you are dead.

Something pretty... that's just the surface. People worry so much about aging, but you look younger if you don't worry about it.

I have always had the urge to open forbidden doors: with a curiosity and an obstinacy that verge on masochism.

If you get trapped in the idea that what is most important is what image of yourself you're giving to the world, you're on a dangerous path.

To be free means to choose, whose slave you want to be. ­

If you want to live your life through to the end, you have to live dangerously.

To give and receive love, you have to be in touch with pain, you have to be capable of provoking it and feeling it.

I appreciate subtlety. I have never enjoyed a kiss in front of the camera. There's nothing to it except not getting your lipstick smeared.

To me having a party is something like having a baby. The fact that you got through the last one alive is not somehow sufficiently reassuring now.

None are ruined by the justice of God but those that hate to be reformed by the grace of God.

If I want to take a picture, I take it no matter what.

I have often tried to tell the story of a place through people there.

Nobody shoots at Santa Claus.

For me, a holiday is about taking a book and going to a mountain and reading.

Money: There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.

Working in Tokyo has convinced me that, contrary to what people think, it is actually one of the world's most beautiful cities.

Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.