Or take this girl, for example. At a meeting just outside Paris, a fifteen-year-old girl came up to me and said that she'd been to see [The Double Life of] Véronique. She'd gone once, twice, three times and only wanted to say one thing really - that...
Well, suppose we remain upon earth, after all? Suppose we bravely accept the death of our dreams at the same time as the death of our bodies? This beyond is decidedly uncertain, quite vague and mobile. I do not believe that it exists everywhere; I be...
It is undefinable; and moreover, if it were defined it would lose all its value. God is not all that exists; God is all that does not exist. Therein resides the power & the charm of that mysterious word. God is tradition, God is legend, God is folklo...
Abstractions do us much harm by impelling us to the quest of the absolute in all things. Joy does not exist, but there are joys: and these joys may not be folly felt unless they are detached from neutral or even painful conditions. The idea of contin...
Those for whom things came easily usually made less of an effort, not more.
I ricordi più preziosi, al pari degli oggetti delicati, rischiano di sciuparsi se li si maneggia troppo
I spent my teenage years in Paris when my dad was stationed there, and I'd look at women in their forties and think, 'That's the age I want to be.'
I went to Paris when I was about 18 and then went to Miami and New York. I did all of that alone. I did it to myself.
I really admire Werner Herzog and Spike Lee. They're amazing documentarians. If you took away all the narratives, they'd just be amazing documentarians.
They played Boston. They played at the Boston Tea Party and through an amazing chain of events I got to hang out with them backstage even though I was underage.
Sometimes reading other writers helps. You learn some little technique that turns out to be useful, or simply are reinspired by the amazing things others do.
I kicked the door open, and I'm gonna hold my leg in there. I'm keeping the door open for all these amazing female singer-songwriters that are coming out.
It's amazing that more people have climbed Mount Everest than have broken the 4-minute mile.
It's amazing how lucky Westlife were and what we achieved. It's very rare to have seven number ones in a row. Ridiculous in fact.
When you talk about me having a favorite singer, it's Celine. She is not only one of the most amazing singers, but she is just an amazing person.
He wanted to tell the baby that Paris was like a poem in stone.
There was hardly an eminent writer in Paris who was unacquainted with the inside of the Conciergerie or the Bastille.
Paris is a woman but London is an independent man puffing his pipe in a pub.
You can't say asses in church unless you are speaking of donkeys.
Until the War, we claimed to be equal; simpletons, some say, but equal man to man.
When he told me he no longer loved me, I fell to my knees.
