That's the trouble with the world. We all despise ourselves.

Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?

Old age, especially an honoured old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.

A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second.

How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.

On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone.

The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.

Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.

This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying.

Anything I've done up till 27 May 1999 was kind of an illusion, existing without living. My daughter, the birth of my daughter, gave me life.

I can't help thinking that there are only one or two ways of being brought into this world, but there are so many fucked-up ways of leaving it.

No social problem is as universal as the oppression of the child

One of the saddest things in life, is the things one remembers.

love the life you live.live the life you love.

I’m not afraid of death, but I’m in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.