At times the mirror increases a thing’s value, at times denies it.

A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.

Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else.

A human being becomes human not through the casual convergence of certain biological conditions, but through an act of will and love on the part of other people.

I have tried to remove weight, sometimes from people, sometimes from heavenly bodies, sometimes from cities; above all I have tried to remove weight from the structure of stories and from language.

Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents.

The universe is the mirror in which we can contemplate only what we have learned to know in ourselves

It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.

The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner.

Who are we, who is each one of us, if not a combinatoria of experiences, information, books we have read, things imagined?

I will start out this evening with an assertion: fantasy is a place where it rains.

We Live in a World Measured by Piracy because Piracy means Access.

Prediction is not just one of the things your brain does. It is the primary function of the neo-cortex, and the foundation of intelligence.

I take my hat off to mums who have lots of kids. Anyone that says being a mum isn't a full-time job has obviously never had any.

Ridicule is about the most powerful weapon possible.

It is not the task of the University to offer what society asks for, but to give what society needs.

Give to each emotion a personality, to each state of mind a soul.

Hervey (Weinstein) thank you for killing whoever you had to kill to get me up here today.

It isn't that we do what we want. It's that we're allowed to want at all.

But I sometimes think we have too much of a fixation about 2012.

In this chaotic world where everything is moving and turning, one's partner should be like the centre of a wheel which never moves and always remains still.