A man can't be angry at his own time without suffering some damage.

And what would you do, ... if you could rule the world for a day? I suppose I would have no choice but to abolish reality.

There is nothing in this world as invisible as a monument

Layer by layer art strips life bare.

One does what one is; one becomes what one does.

If there is a sense of reality, there must also be a sense of possibility.

Progress would be wonderful - if only it would stop.

One must conform to the baseness of an age or become neurotic.

Stupidity is active in every direction, and can dress up in all the clothes of truth. Truth, on the other hand, has for every occasion only one dress and one path, and is always at a disadvantage.

The thought is not something that observes an inner event, but, rather it is this inner event itself. We do not reflect on something, but, rather, something thinks itself in us.

Life forms a surface that acts as if it could not be otherwise, but under its skin things are pounding and pulsing.

We decided to become a society of women, a club to make sure women were protected. The club was something important back then. Not like it is today.

I preferred the world of imagination to the death of sleep

Pay attention, and use your imagination.

I don't want to get close to people who have secrets that I don't know about.

The highest genius never flowers in satire, but culminates in sympathy with that which is best in human nature, and appeals to it.

Love is the way back into Eden. It is the way back to life.

Too weird to live, and too rare to die.

In France, I am so free. I have more freedom than most American directors could dare to even imagine.

It is not change that causes anxiety; it is the feeling that we are without defenses in the presence of what we see as danger that causes anxiety.

So learn about life. Cut yourself a big slice with the silver server, a big slice of pie. Open your eyes. Let life happen.