"Everything in my life is a fragile decision that somebody else made." --Reflecting on his daughter, his actress wife Gwyneth Paltrow, his fans, and his career.

"Tous les changements, même les plus souhaités ont leur mélancolie, car ce que nous quittons, c'est une partie de nous-mêmes; il faut mourir à une vie pour entrer dans une autre."

"All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another."