Language was not given to man: he seized it.

Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

I have no friends, there are only people I love.

Can the knowledge deriving from reason even begin to compare with knowledge perceptible by sense?

There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses.

Most people have never known solitude.... But there are a few of the other kind who can go back to their rooms anywhere and close the door on the whole world, and feel that they need never emerge.

We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.

There are other relations besides reality, which the mind is capable of grasping and which also are primary, like chance, illusion, the fantastic, the dream.

Everything that is not me is incomprehensible.

Geniuses are like ocean liners: they should never meet.

The painting of tomorrow will use the photographic eye as it has used the human eye.

People are a soul-ego-spacesuit.

Nice guys finish last but bad guys don't finish at all.

We cannot escape history.

Genius, in one respect, is like gold; numbers of persons are constantly writing about both, who have neither.

Safety, reputation, their lives, their friends, and their world. Writers typically try to avoid that because it's not expedient.

I also liked Daniel Craig. He's not like any other Bond. So we'll see. In 10 years I might be cursed for doing it, but I'm very grateful for what it has done for me.

She said 'I love you' as if it were a secret, and an immense one.

My winning is getting to perform. That's my victory.

I like the authentic object, and I have no problem paying sixty dollars for a T-shirt if it fits me really well and it's really well made. I like unassuming clothes.

We are taking way more out of the ocean than the ocean can replenish.