Wherever God has planted you, you must know how to flower - translated from a French saying

Politicians were like talking dogs in a circus: the fact that they existed was uncommonly interesting, but no sane person would actually believe what they said

Whether you like it or not, Paris is the beating heart of Western civilisation. It's where it all began and ended.

You can't make accommodations in crucial situations and be heroic.

If you can live in Paris, maybe you should.

Live today, for tomorrow we die.

I have a very serious censorship office inside my head; it censors things that I could tell you that you would never forget, and I don't want to be the person to stick that in your brain.

The best Paris I know now is in my head.

Once you have your characters, they tell you what to write, you don't tell them.

One is what one has the nerve to pretend to be.

If you're a writer, you're always working.

What you powerfully holdIn your thought-worldWill make you eitherA street beggarOr a great king.

Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.

Rainbows is a pretty honest look at my approach to life and love. While I admit to not exactly being an angel, I do try and live life to the fullest and give as much as I can of myself in the process

Outperforming the market with low volatility on a consistent basis is an impossibility. I outperformed the market for 30-odd years, but not with low volatility.

You can't kind of take away, you either do or you don't. If you kind of take away something you're a failure.

To this day, H.R. Giger's work remains distinctive in every sense. He is frighteningly unique.

Every movie that I've done, they don't stand independently from one another because a little bit of me is in every single one of those, and it's part of my own personal growth.

Create experiences that leave you in awe, for these will be the highlights of your life.

Another fella told me, he had a sister who looked just fine. Instead of being my deliverance, she had a strange resemblance to a cat name of Frankenstein.

An hereditary aristocracy... will change the form of our governments from the best to the worst in the world.