James Brown and Frank Sinatra are two different quantities in the universe. They represent two different experiences of the world.
It is comfortable to live in the belief that you are great, though your greatness is latent.
You see things less clearly when you open your eyes too wide.
There are three things I always forget. Names, faces and. . . the third I can't remember.
Who knows whether, if I had given up smoking, I should really have become the strong perfect man I imagined? Perhaps it was this very doubt that bound me to my vice, because life is so much pleasanter if one is able to believe in one's own latent greatness
Whenever I look at a mountain I always expect it to turn into a volcano.
Health doesn't analyze itself, nor does it look at itself in the mirror. Only we sick people know something about ourselves.
There’s only one moment in which you can arrive in time. If you’re not there, you’re either too early or too late.
I was born in Brazil, I was an American citizen for about 10 years. I thought of myself as a global citizen.
If there's something that can be formulated, regulated, give you security, then nobody would lose money. Every movie would be successful. And that's certainly not the case.
No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.