"The advice I am giving always to all my students is above all to study the music profoundly... music is like the ocean, and the instruments are little or bigger islands, very beautiful for the flowers and trees."

"Among God's creatures two, the dog and the guitar, have taken all the sizes and all the shapes, in order not to be separated from the man."

"Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species."

"If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once."

"I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction."

"Love is easy, and I love writing. You can't resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you're in love."