We are like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants, so that we can see more than they.

We [the Moderns] are like dwarves perched on the shoulders of giants [the Ancients], and thus we are able to see more and farther than the latter.

When the sky is fully covered by the birds, you will feel the winds of pure freedom beneath this sky!

Life is nothing but an opportunity to love.

I fall in love with any girl who smells of library paste.

It will in the end, be admitted that everything, in effect is an image and that the least object which has no symbolic role assigned to it is capable of standing for absolutely anything.

I just write the sort of book that I would enjoy reading myself, a book that is both scholarly and recreates the experience of people at that time.

People in France are very intrusive when they recognize you. In New York, they are very polite, with quick words, so it's great.

Attack is only one half of the art of boxing.

Love is a second life; it grows into the soul, warms every vein, and beats in every pulse.

The theory [of evolution] is a scientific mistake.

If you gave your best to what you were given, at the time, it's going to play out how it's going to play out.