Standing on a street corner waiting for no one is power.

It is a great feeling to know that from a window I can go to books to cans of beer to past loves. And from these gather enough dream to sneak out a back door.

I remember the people I knew in prison; I was very fortunate to know them - they came from 1910, 1920, 1930.

I feel I want to be wise with white hair in a tall library in a deep chair by a fireplace.

If you have a choice of two things and can't decide, take both.

Spirit is Life. It flows thru the death of me endlessly like a river unafraid of becoming the sea.

The lucky thing was that I was Italian; when the other Italians saw me fight back, they came to my defence.

If you believe you're a poet, then you're saved.

Ah, if I were dictator I'd have poets throwing bombs!

The fall of man stands a lie before Beethoven, a truth before Hitler.

it's just that I see love as odd as wearing shoes-- I never wanted to marry a girl who was like my mother And Ingrid Bergman was always impossible

This mind is continuous and ever taxing, Sleep is an endeavoring luxury for the carnivorous mind

We knock upon silence for an answering music.

The most pleasant surprise is to get lost in the beauty of life.

I beg you take courage; the brave soul can mend even disaster.

As a director, you have to go in with a really, really, really clear picture of what you want. That's the point of my commentaries. It's so difficult because you're the harshest critic.

The thing about Paris, it's a great city for wandering around and buying shoes and nursing a cafe au lait for hours on end and pretending you're Baudelaire. But it's not a city where you can work.

Of all the gifts bestowed by nature on human beings, hearty laughter must be close to the top.

We can know what God is not, but we cannot know what He is.

I just look like a transvestite when I try to dress up. There's no place to hide my balls.

Time is more important than price. When time is up price will reverse.