Fashion: by which what is really fantastic becomes for a moment the universal.

The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much.

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Be yourself; everyone else is taken.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

Life is the longest journey.

my imagination persisted in sticking horrors into the dark- so I stuck my imagination into the dark instead, and let it look out at me.

I did what most writers do at their beginnings: emulated my elders, imitated my peers, thus turning away from any possibility of discovering truths beneath my skin and behind my eye.

Let there be spaces in your togetherness.And let the wind of the heavens dance between you.

Let us seek to fathom those things that are fathomable and reserve those things which are unfathomable for reverence in quietude.

There are many films and TV shows I make where people find themselves in fantastical situations; as often as possible their reactions to it are very normal.

If you're tearing around in a panic about something, then it puts everyone else in a panic as well.

I'm not videotaping my life, but in a way I am trying to put certain things about myself on canvas.

Wisdom lies in recognizing the dangers that lie within us and doing battle with them daily.

No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.