Midnight in Paris

“Sex and alcohol – it fuels the desire but kills the performance.”

“I believe that love that is true and real creates a respite from death.  All cowardice comes from not loving, or not loving well, which is the same thing.”

“The artist’s job is not to succumb to despair but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existence.”

“How’s anyone ever going to come up with a book or a painting or a symphony or a sculpture that can compete with a great city?  You can’t.  When you look around, every street, every boulevard is its own special art form.”

“The past has always had a great charisma for me.”

“No subject is terrible, if the story is true.”

“That’s the trouble with writers, you are so full of words.”

“If I want to write something worthwhile, I have to get rid of my illusions.”

“Nostalgia is denial, denial of the painful present.”