“Nothing is very important, and few things are important at all.”

“This is very important -- to take leisure time. Pace is the essence. Without stopping entirely and doing nothing at all for great periods, you're gonna lose everything...just to do nothing at all, very, very important. And how many people do this in modern society? Very few. That's why they're all totally mad, frustrated, angry and hateful.”

“How come everyone's making like everthing that isn't important is very important, all the while they're so busy pretending what's really important isn't important at all?”

“Degas is one of the very few painters who have given the floor its true importance.”

“There is for a man two things in life that are very important, head and shoulders above everything else. Find work you like, and find someone to live with you like. Very few people get both.”

“It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.”