Since it's now fashionable to laugh at the conservative French Academy, I have remained a rebel by joining it.

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.

It doesn't mater if you're a slow walker, so long as you don't walk backwards.

No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.

I wish I were either rich enough or poor enough to do a lot of things that are impossible in my present comfortable circumstances.

Shields Green was not one to shrink from hardships or dangers. He was a man of few words, and his speech was singularly broken; but his courage and self-respect made him quite a dignified character.

I shaved this morning for precisely that reason. I was like, 'Well, you never know when someone is going to clamp down on your calf and try to suck out the snake poison.

Two must-haves for me are a great book and my iPod.

People have learned how to strum a guitar, but they don't have the soul. They don't feel it from the heart. It hurts me. I'm killin' myself to tell them how it is.

Courage is feeling the fear and doing it anyway.

If you loose the sounds comming out of New Orleans, you loose apart of the american language.

I've always thought space station is a great name. It should be like a gas station where we go for service and supplies before heading further out