A good thing to do when one is sitting, eating, and resting is to have a conversation.

I will love you as misfortune loves orphans, as fire loves innocence, and as justice loves to sit and watch while everything goes wrong.

When I wrote Rick, I had the idea that I would take the plot of nearly every opera and turn it into a dark film, which is something I still may do.

the table of elements does not contain one of the most powerful elements that make up our world, and that is the element of surprise.

The idea that the curtain rises on what is often more or less a happy scene, and it will fall just a few hours later, and everyone will be dead or have gone mad... I find that kind of narrative very appealing.

Can't we sleep ten minutes more? I was having a lovely dream about sneezing without covering my mouth, and giving everybody germs.

Lately it has become more and more difficult to attend dinner parties without the evening ending in gunfire or tapioca.