All rivers, even the most dazzling, those that catch the sun in their course, all rivers go down to the ocean and drown. And life awaits man as the sea awaits the river.

There is the churning and the boiling of the sea, and the foam on top of it and that is what man is, churning and foam together.

Here, like everywhere else, laughing and singing, dancing and dreaming are not exactly the whole of reality; and for one ray of sun shining on the hut, the rest of the village remains in the dark.

Men are strong, women are smart, but no matter how smart, their bellies are always there to betray women and that's their downfall.

...when an old person dies, a whole library disappears.

The difference between film and TV is the pace. You don't have the leisure of time in television.

As you are touching the human life and human kind, any work is always relevant.

Is France a northern European export powerhouse, or a Mediterranean indebted and dependent economy? Yes to both.

We all know scientists who in private life do not come up to the standard of truthfulness, but who, nevertheless, would not consciously falsify the results of their researches

The central role in the fight against terrorism is with national authorities.

Iowa's the worst. Iowa's just nothing, just flat as far as you can see. It's the only state in the country where you can stand on your front porch and actually watch your dog run away for three days.

It's important to let your subjects be themselves.

The social principles of Christianity preach cowardice, self-contempt, abasement, submission, humility, in a word all the qualities of the canaille

I cannot keep quiet even when I am a lone voice.

Modern thought does not offer consolations, but upsets.