That action is best which procures the greatest happiness.
Assured her I've never loved anyone except myself and have no intention of starting now.
. . . it’s not just the person who fills a house, it’s their I’ll be back later!s, their toothbrushes and unused hats and coats, their belongingnesses.
If you show someone something you've written, you give them a sharpened stake, lie down in your coffin, and say, ‘When you’re ready’.
True knowledge without xperience is food without sustenance
How vulgar, this hankering after immortality, how vain, how false. Composers are merely scribblers of cave paintings. One writes music because winter is eternal and because, if one didn't, the wolves and blizzards would be at one's throat all the sooner.
A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.
I can turn around and scream and get angry, but I turn around and I forget about it.
in all cultures, human beings - in order to be human - must understand the nonhuman.
I don't think of myself as a director or writer. I think of myself as a filmmaker.
The passions and commitments that ignited my activity as a student are the same passions and commitments that I have today.