If you think and feel what you're supposed to think and feel, hard enough, it'll come out through your eyes - and the camera will see it.
A touch of madness is, I think, almost always necessary for constructing a destiny.
I knew that good like bad becomes a routine, that the temporary tends to endure, that what is external permeates to the inside, and that the mask, given time, comes to be the face itself.
Love is a punishment. We are punished for not having been strong enough to remain alone.
Every life is punctuated by deaths and departures, and each one causes great suffering that it is better to endure rather than forgo the pleasure of having known the person who has passed away. Somehow our world rebuilds itself after every death, and in any case we know that none of us will last forever. So you might say that life and death lead us by the hand, firmly but tenderly.
age means nothing. If anything I feel that I'm still a child: eternity and childhood are my ages.
Our great mistake is to try to exact from each person virtues which he does not possess, and to neglect the cultivation of those which he has.
We leave Pippa behind, standing in the dark, teeming bowels of the camp, while the sun begins to stain the sky electric, and from all sides the guns draw closer.
My philosophy is familiarity breeds contempt.
Comedy is in my blood. Too bad it's not in my act.
In a lot of writing or intellectual discourse we're starting to use that model: "Oh, this is where it comes from!" I would like to concentrate on work which is more resistant to that procedure, as I think fiction is.