"The world is beautiful, and outside there is no salvation."

"Charm is a way of getting the answer 'yes' without having asked any clear question."

"The only true justice is vengeance."

"A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened."

"Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present."