The difference between an author and a horse is that the horse doesn't understand the horse dealer's language.

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Every uniform corrupts one's character.

Jealousy is the fear of comparison.

A joke is a good camouflage. Next best comes sentiment... But the best camouflage of all - in my opinion - is the plain and simple truth. Because nobody ever believes it.

We asked for workers. We got people instead.

Technology... the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.

There is no art without Eros.

When we travel, we are like a film at the moment of exposure; it is memory that will develop it.

I have no words for my reality.

It is only the consciousness of a nonexistence which allows us to realize for moments that we are living.

How we react to the tragedy of one small person accurately reflects our attitude towards a whole nationality, and increasing the numbers doesn't change much.

If you don't place your foot on the rope you'll never cross the chasm.

[When] you're dying laughing because your three-year-old made a fart joke, it doesn't matter what else is going on. That's real happiness.

The arts are the signature of a nation.

You get all these friends just when you don’t need friends anymore.

You are priests, not social or political leaders. Let us not be under the illusion that we are serving the Gospel through an exaggerated interest in the wide field of temporal problems.

I definitely would like to do some more dramatic roles.

I think that secular liberals need to recognize that they are still, often, hanging their worldview on what are metaphysical ideas.

Women tell us that they do feel patronized. They do feel like they don't have the time and the space to have their questions answered.