Hope is hearing the music of the future. Faith is to dance to it.

There is a total incompatibility between the joy of reading, a vagabond experience, and the experience of reading in order to answer questions, and explain what you understood.

Let us plant dates even though those who plant them will never eat them. We must live by the love of what we will never see.

If you have reasons to love someone, you don’t love them.

Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.

Each memory was now the shadow of a shadow of a shadow. The only thing that remained tangible to him was the sense of absence.

How much luckier than all the rest of mankind are the astrologers who, if they tell one truth among a hundred lies, obtain so much credit that even their lies are believed.

Every time I see niqabs, I feel very uncomfortable because it's the opposite of my idea of opened society.

Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.

I understand, as the young, attractive woman in film, that there's always going to be people seeking out extra salacious things for you to do.

Don't let your imagination be crushed by life as a whole.

When looking at Germans, I have never felt a sense that they are guilty. I have encountered anti-Semitism in the United States as well.

I've always been singing and making noise. I used to do that all the time when I was a kid. My mom would get very frustrated with me because I would just sit around and make noises.