To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery.

Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.

Nothing can be done except little by little.

To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.

God is the only being who, in order to reign, doesn't even need to exist.

Dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music

The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep.

The devil's finest trick is to persuade you that he does not exist.

One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk.

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.

Music fathoms the sky.

You have no control of uncertainties! You can only control your life and your reaction to any event. May you find grace for patient endurance.

Matter. noun: what we’re made of

When you really know somebody you can’t hate them. Or maybe it’s just that you can’t really know them until you stop hating them.

I was very frightened when I turned forty. I suddenly thought I ought to wake up and be speaking with the voice of God.

I'll continue making films because I love being able to drop into other people's worlds. My goal is to be constantly learning.

How I learned to love the New World Order.

When the thing taken into union is perfectly adapted to that which receives it, the result is delight and pleasure and satisfaction.

I suppose now I'm obliged to wish you happiness in your new life. Although happiness in the absence of indoor plumbing is a debatable concept.

My purist comedy friends accuse me of being a Jack of all trades and master of none.

God wiped snot out of his nose and that was you.