Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.

The Louvre is a morgue; you go there to identify your friends.

I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.

Be yourself. The world worships the original.

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.

Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.

Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.

The composer opens the cage door for arithmetic, the draftsman gives geometry its freedom.

Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.

Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts.

I think once you start traveling, you don’t stop

Disappointments will come and go, but discouragement is a choice that you make.

Too many religious organizations are in the business of enforcing beliefs.

It is my turn now; and if I come back, it is yours.

It does not at first appear that an astronomer rapt in abstraction, while he gazes on a star, must feel more exquisite delight than a farmer who is conducting his team.

I'd been on all the television programs as an actor, as a writer, as a director, as a producer.

I endeavored to renounce society, that I might avoid temptation. But it was a poor religion; so far as it prevailed, only tended to make me gloomy, stupid, unsociable, and useless.

Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

This is how memories are; what seems so clear and unforgettable at one moment vanishes like steam the next.

To travel, to experience and learn: that is to live.