Old maids claw as cats do. They not only inflict wounds but experience pleasure in doing so. Nor will they fail to remind their victims of the blood drawn.

It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.

True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.

Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.

In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.

Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.

When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.

A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.

A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.

I never guessed I could cry so hard my face hurt.

Music is good for everybody. They say it soothes the savage beast. Well, I think theirs a beast in all of us. So let's get some more music and soothe all the beasts out there.

I have found, unfortunately, that if I take on too many projects at one time, there is a higher probability of those projects sucking.

The world was divided into two groups: those who showered at night, and those who showered in the morning.

Night is beautiful when you are happy--comforting when you are in grief--terrible when you are lonely and unhappy.

Your conscience is no defense against you sins; however, it can unfortunately deny you the pleasure of enjoying them.

It's no big deal about how you get language to evolve. You cause language to evolve by saying new and intelligent things to each other.

Reduced to a miserable mass level, the level of a Hitler, German Romanticism broke out into hysterical barbarism.

Archetypes are always [in my film-making]. It's sometimes interesting to just flip them a little bit and see the underside.

It's true: I don't remember what life was like before parenthood.