Art is not about something, Art is something

Energy creates energy. It is by spending myself that I become rich.

It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.

Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.

We ought to hate very rarely, as it is too fatiguing; remain indifferent to a great deal, forgive often and never forget.

Permanent success cannot be achieved except by incessant intellectual labour, always inspired by the ideal.

[When asked at age 79 why her Paris apartment was located up many flights of stairs at the top of the building:] It's the only way I can still make the hearts of men beat faster.

He who is incapable of feeling strong passions, of being shaken by anger, of living in every sense of the word, will never be a good actor.

To be a good actor... it is necessary to have a firmly tempered soul, to be surprised at nothing, to resume each minute the laborious task that has barely just been finished.

Oscar Wilde: 'Do you mind if I smoke?' Sarah Bernhardt: 'I don't care if you burn.'

Legend remains victorious in spite of history.

No one can trust you until you can trust yourself.

The sky was the yellow color of old cheese and the clouds flew across it, as if they had seen something horrifying in the desert wastes where they had so lately been.

I want to touch people's lives, and bring them along with me.

I was never a pipe or bong man. That's California stuff. I was an Eastern roller.

The bigger the headache, the bigger the pill.

Everywhere, within man and without, there is devastation, instability, chaos, and evidence of some prolonged rout.

It's a strange, eerie sensation to fly a lunar landing trajectory not difficult, but somewhat complex and unforgiving.

Obamacare is leaving. Millions of people have already lost the plan that they liked.

He who lets fear rule him, has fear for a master [Acheron]