“The ability to laugh heartily is the sign of a healthy soul.”

The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.

Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality.

Cultivate everything the critics hated in your first work – that’s what makes you unique.

The only way to kill death is through photography.

A film is a petrified fountain of thought.

Continue reading Proust. His magnificent intelligence is particularly fond of describing stupidity. Which is ultimately exhausting.

Love is mainly an affair of short spasms. If these spasms disappoint us, love dies. It is very seldom that it weathers the experience and becomes friendship.

When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.

Listen carefully to first criticisms made of your work. Note just what it is about your work that critics don’t like – then cultivate it. That’s the only part of your work that’s individual and worth keeping.

Picasso said that everything is a miracle, that it’s a miracle that we don’t dissolve in our baths.

I feel myself inhabited by a force or being — very little known to me. It gives the orders; I follow.

Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.

We shelter an angel within us. We must be the guardians of that angel.

A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.

An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.

It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.

Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things… one of the beginnings of human emancipation is the ability to laugh at authority.

The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.

People always underestimate the ability of earth to increase its carrying capacity.

Many people fail in life, not for lack of ability or brains or even courage but simply because they have never organized their energies around a goal.

Intelligence is measured by a person’s ability to see validity within both sides of contradicting arguments.

We simply must have faith in each other, faith in our ability to govern ourselves, and faith in the future of this Nation. Restoring that faith and that confidence to America is now the most important task we face.

The ability to hold two competing thoughts in one’s mind and still be able to function is the mark of a superior mind

I don’t think I could do a reality show, no.