When a day passes, it is no longer there. What remains of it? Nothing more than a story. If stories weren't told or books weren't written, man would live like the beasts, only for the day.

Two important things are to have a genuine interest in people and to be kind to them. Kindness, I've discovered, is everything.

I believe in God but people are liars. It's those people who say they are appointed by God who I don't believe in.

Men want all women to lie down as whores and get up as virgins.

The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.

Slaughter and justice cannot dwell together.

All is foreseen but the choice is given.