Poetry is indispensable - if I only knew what for.

The Louvre is a morgue; you go there to identify your friends.

I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.

Be yourself. The world worships the original.

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.

Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.

Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.

The composer opens the cage door for arithmetic, the draftsman gives geometry its freedom.

Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.

Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts.

. . . owning a dog always ended with this sadness because dogs just don't live as long as people do.

Farewell is said by the living, in life, every day. It is said with love and friendship, with the affirmation that the memories are lasting if the flesh is not.

The ego of the mind can entrap you in a web of dilution.

Everyone appreciates being appreciated.

I was the girl that didn't go to prom or my graduation because I was too busy working with producers and making music.

My strength returns to me with my cup of coffee and the reading of the psalms.

Cloning represents a very clear, powerful, and immediate example in which we are in danger of turning procreation into manufacture.

Some days you see lots of people on crutches.

Solitude is dangerous to reason, without being favourable to virtue. Remember that the solitary mortal is certainly luxurious, probably superstitious, and possibly mad.

If you step back and look at the data, the optimum amount of red meat you eat should be zero.