I've found that in business opportunities will constantly emerge or situations develop that make you revise your plans along the way.

To conform to a sick society is to become sick.

The only things flawless about me are my flaws.

But the French writers always had more originality and independence than others, and that regulator, which elsewhere was religion, long since ceased to exist for them.

These trifles will lead to serious mischief. [Lat., Hae nugae seria ducent In mala.]

I certainly think that the best book in the world would owe the most to a good index, and the worst book, if it had but a single good thought in it, might be kept alive by it.

While I find that I can keep my nose out of other people's business, I do have a curiosity as to their non-business activities.

The perceived wisdom is that people do not go in large numbers to black-and-white movies anymore - which is a great shame, but I'd love to make a black-and-white movie one day.

The Dharma is a very, very special and precious thing. The more you practice it, the more you will realize this.

I was brought up in a very ordinary family, in fact, a worker's family. Both my father and mother were ordinary citizens.

Don't attribute mishaps to a lapse in concentration - if you missed the note you don't know it.