Imagination has always had powers of resurrection that no science can match.

Words are a form of action, capable of influencing change.

Words possess primitive mystical incantatory healing powers... Their articulation represents a complete, lived experience.

There are plenty of alcoholics who can be magnificent when drunk: it does not make them any less alcoholic.

Even the most ordinary life is a mystery if you look close enough.

No matter what the subject, the subject is always love.

At the age of thirty-five, I have just begun to become the kind of person who could understand the kind of book I would want to write.

The real trap of fame is its irresistibility.

The hopeless hope is what sustains us in difficult moments

The Art of Muses is the Bridge of Feeling.

Admonish your friends privately but praise them openly.

...if this Roman dude’s as bad as you say, then why are you lurking outside his store looking all charged and heated like a dog waiting for its owner?

I don't know if all the women in the photographs are beautiful, but I do know that the women are beautiful in the photographs.

Your life must now run the course that's been set for it.

Goals are discovered, not made.

I think in terms of chapters. Every time I finish a movie, it's a chapter. When one of my kids graduates from school, that's a chapter.

Until you are open, you cannot receive.

Illusions as bad as mine make people aware of the fallacies of visual information and the pleasure to be derived from such fallacies.