People talk too much. Humans aren't descended from monkeys. They come from parrots.

People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living weren't already complicated enough.

Remember me, even if it's only in a corner and secretly. Don't let me go.

Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.

There are no second chances in life, except to feel remorse.

Never trust girls who let themselves be touched right away. But even less those who need a priest for approval.

The moment you stop to think about whether you love someone, you've already stopped loving that person forever.

Books hold no passports. There's only one true literary tradition: the human.

Paris is the only city in the world where starving to death is still considered an art.

Presents are made for the pleasure of who gives them, not the merits of who receives them.

Destiny is usually just around the corner. Like a thief, a hooker, or a lottery vendor: its three most common personifications. But what destiny does not do is home visits. You have to go for it.

But I try not to think with my gut. If I'm serious about understanding the world, thinking with anything besides my brain, as tempting as that might be, is likely to get me into trouble.

That's at the root of the human interaction: fair trade.

Everyone has got some preconceptions, but you have to readjust them in front of reality. Reality has the last word.

For my part, I plan to work out a fair and adequate redistribution of city services to all city neighborhoods.

I was so pleased to be at university to do physics and mathematics.

I work from the people that interest me, and that I care about, in rooms that I live in and know. I use the people to invent my pictures, and I can work more freely when they are there.

An idea's worth is directly proportional to the opposition created.

I don't always get to do a lot of bad guys.

I may be the wrong person for my life.

I try to lead by example.