“My soul, be satisfied with flowers, with fruit, with weeds even; but gather them in the one garden you may call your own.”

Your name hangs in my heart like a bell’s tongue.

To offend is my pleasure; I love to be hated.

A kiss is a rosy dot placed on the “i” in loving.

A pessimist is a man who tells the truth prematurely.

A great nose may be an index Of a great soul.

All our souls are written in our eyes.

I am what I am because early in life I decided that I would please at least myself in all things.

And if kisses in these words could travel too, Madam, you’d read this letter with your lips.

A pessimist is a man who tells the truth prematurely.

The dream, alone, is of interest. What is life without a dream?

You must believe me when I believe, and not when I doubt.

My soul, be satisfied with flowers, with fruit, with weeds even; but gather them in the one garden you may call your own.

A large nose is in fact the sign of an affable man, good, courteous, witty, liberal, courageous, such as I am.

It is at night that faith in light is admirable.

My heart always timidly hides itself behind my mind. I set out to bring down stars from the sky, then, for fear of ridicule, I stop and pick little flowers of eloquence.

To joke in the face of danger is the supreme politeness, a delicate refusal to cast oneself as a tragic hero.

I was a choreographer in the ’80s and I was doing these videos.

For me, there was never an end game for becoming a director.

Someone, I tell you, in another time will remember us.

I hastened to quit a place where I hoped there was nothing further to detain me.

Nutrition . . . has been kicked around like a puppy that cannot take care of itself.

I feel like they’re talking about someone else we both know.

If every man were placed in the office for which he was fitted by nature and a proper education, which first suggested to me the plan of Illumination.

Also, I’d like to play an athlete again, while I’m still physically fit, or a musician, like Nat King Cole