For a French person, lack of desire in someone is really seen as a defect.

In France, you have 900 years of romantic love going back to the troubadours and minstrels that wrote stories of Lancelot and Guinevere. You have gallantry at the highest level.

I think people are more likely to think it's better to find something new. That mentality has affected all of our thinking.

There is a belief that love has its own justification, that it should be experienced as passionately as possible. The French have a wonderful expression, amour passion, which is the ultimate.

What does the world teach you? It teaches you (to do) egoism. Then, from that egoism, arise many many phases!

I live my life in the light of your love.

Copywriting is a design muse, it carves a beautiful masterpiece in an imaginative way.

In rap music, even though the element of poetry is very strong, so is the element of the drum, the implication of the dance. Without the beat, its commercial value would certainly be more tenuous.

Virtue has many preachers, but few martyrs.

Do not read good books-life is too short for that-read only the best.

I may play some exhibition games so I don't want to quit the game of chess completely. I just decided and it's a firm decision not to play competitive chess anymore.

To be anywhere near an enormous ocean liner when you are just like a fish in the water is frightening.

They are either people of faith who have lost their faith from reading my books, or they are people who had already lost their faith, and something about my books encouraged them to affirm that.

Why do those people guess so much and shave so little, and are so disdainful of hearing aids?