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

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.

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

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.

Have we freed this man or cursed him?" he wondered aloud."Freedom is never a curse, brother, " Thirty-four insisted. "But it is often a hard road.

There're so many things I want to do, like become more media savvy. I am too lazy. But I'm making an effort.

Comfort rules. You want to be able to sit in a good chair comfortably for a few hours and be able to talk and enjoy a glass of wine. There's nothing worse than sitting in an uncomfortable chair.

Any philosophy worth taking seriously would have to be built upon a firm foundation of unyielding despair.

It is easy to be swept away by some overwhelming feeling, so it's helpful to remember that any stressful feeling is like a compassionate alarm clock that says, "You're caught in the dream."

General knowledge may have to be slight or even amateurish knowledge, but it is none the less useful, and we discourage it at our peril.

This world may be only illusion -- but it's the only illusion we've got.

We're trying to find areas of cooperation with Russia in the area of counterterrorism and the campaign against ISIS.

Investing one cent more in oil, coal and gas is investing in the death of society, and the in the death of our children.

I know nothing about Christianity, nothing about football, and I'm not a Republican.