Your flattery is as full of contempt as your insults were.

Pain narrows consciousness; pleasure blurs it.

When Medusa looks in the mirror, she sees the Lady of Sorrows.

My passions have never jumped out of the fireplace and set fire to the carpet.

Retirement requires the invention of a new hedonism, not a return to the hedonism of youth

The sewing machine joins what the scissors have cut asunder, plus whatever else comes in its path.

Clothes make a statement. Costumes tell a story.

The laughter of the aphorism is sometimes triumphant, but seldom carefree.

'Be faithful to your roots' is the liberal version of 'Stay in your ghetto.'

Every day begins with an act of courage and hope: getting out of bed.

Totem poles and wooden masks no longer suggest tribal villages but fashionable drawing rooms in New York and Paris.

Let us not burthen our remembrance withA heaviness that's gone.

Most science is only high falutin' nature studies.

Every battle is going to surprise you. No plan ever survives contact with the enemy.

If all life moves inevitably towards its end, then we must, during our own, colour it with our colours of love and hope.

We can't, we MUST not lose this sense of possibility because in the end, it's all we have.

New York is a place I wanted to come

Genius is both the sail and the wind; that's why he continues his journey without stopping!

I enjoy slaughtering beasts, and I think of my relatives constantly.

I'm better when I'm an autodidact and things just come. Or you're just blessed. I'm not bragging or anything, it just comes to you.

The thing about movies is if somebody has an idea that works, it's in, and I say that as a screenwriter as well as a director.