Knowing how to die is knowing how to live. What is death anyway? It's the outcome of life.

To give a character life in a short space of time, it helps if you arrive on screen with a past.

I need, absolutely, to be alone.

As long as you don't make waves, ripples, life seems easy. But that's condemning yourself to impotence and death before you are dead.

You don't have to be a wreck. You don't have to be sick. One's aim in life should be to die in good health. Just like a candle that burns out.

If you're extremely, painfully frightened of age, it shows.

In these days people take up with each other and drop each other too easily. Pleasure is practiced like a sport, and the easy game of love leads to the dissolution of the feeling of love.