I don't know if people realize how hard I work, because sometimes people ask me for my secret. The truth is that I don't have any secrets apart from the fact that I've been directing theater and film for twenty years and trying at every stage to make my work better.
Hours later the blank sheet still stared at me, and I beat my fist against the desk in fury and fustration, striking it so hard my hand bled. That is how heavy a secret can become. It can make blood flow easier than ink.
I wanted to fathom her secrets; I wanted her to come to me and say: "I love you," and if not that, if that was senseless insanity, then. . . well, what was there to care about? Did I know what I wanted? I was like one demented: all I wanted was to be near her, in the halo of her glory, in her radiance, always, for ever, all my life. I knew nothing more!
The secret to enlightenment is to lighten up. Whether you are talking rock or women, all there.
Write about what you know, and what do you know better than your own secrets?
The secret of long life is double careers. One to about age sixty, then another for the next thirty years.
Life, after all, was a secret with the self. The more one gave out, the less there remained for the center--that center which she coveted for herself and recognized instantly in others. Fruits had it, the very heart of, say, a cherry, where the true worth and flavor lay. Some of course were flawed or hollow in there. Many, in fact.
The cabinets of the sick and the closets of the dead have been ransacked to publish private letters and divulge to all mankind the most secret sentiments of friendship.
Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius.
I'll tell you all my secrets but I lie about my past.
We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.
What is difficult? To keep a secret, to employ leisure well, to be able to bear an injury.
The secret of a long life is to never trust a doctor.
The secrets of nature are concealed; her agency is perpetual, but we do not always discover its effects; time reveals them from age to age; and although she is always the same in herself, she is not always equally well known.
Secrets she'll take to the grave and secrets she's dying to share.
Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manifestation of nature agree to find new shapes.
Your body is merely a machine made to express the thoughts that flow through you and nothing more. It is but an instrument for you to express your imagings just as a piano is an instrument for a musician to express his imagings. Just as the piano is not the musician, so, likewise, your body is not you.
The universe reveals its secrets to those that dare to follow their hearts.
The secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.
The secret is not in what you do to yourself but rather in what you don't do.