The inner chambers of the soul are like the photographer's darkroom. Like a laboratory. One cannot stay there all the time or it becomes the solitary cell of the neurotic.

I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.

My first vision of earth was water veiled. I am of the race of men and women who see all things through this curtain of sea and my eyes are the color of water.

[On Paris:] A city never entirely known, yet which gives you the feeling of intimacy, of possessing it intimately.

[in the]..curious way that my idealism has been mixed with my fatalism, so that I can possess the soul of a dreamer and that of a cynic at the same time......I possess a power of magic...[to] destroy the balance of a well-designed destiny with my diabolical mind.

I hate men who are afraid of women's strength.

The self is merely the lens through which we see others and the world.