I can't help feeling that there is no beauty without hope, struggle, and conquest.

God and Country are an unbeatable team; they break all records for oppression and bloodshed.

The decline of the aperitif may well be one of the most depressing phenomena of our time.

If you were to ask me if I'd ever had the bad luck to miss my daily cocktail, I'd have to say that I doubt it; where certain things are concerned, I plan ahead.

Mystery is the essential element of every work of art.

The Cinema seems to have been invented to express the life of the subconscious, the roots of which penetrate poetry so deeply

I would give my life for a man who is looking for the truth. But I would gladly kill a man who thinks that he has found the truth.

Thank God I'm an atheist.

Thank God, I am still an atheist.

If someone were to tell me I had twenty years left, and ask me how I'd like to spend them, I'd reply 'Give me two hours a day of activity, and I'll take the other twenty-two in dreams.'

Refuse any image that could have a rational meaning or any memory or culture

I don't know. But it takes a special woman to have such a great love - Zhongwen

Art and science have so much in common - the process of trial and error, finding something new and innovative, and to experiment and succeed in a breakthrough.

Nobody travels on the road to success without a puncture or two.

As a writer, I've always been interested in others.

I eat like a maniac when I am sick. My attitude is if I am going to die anyway in the next 24-48 hours, I mind as well live it up.

She has been more famous, over a longer time span, than any other female singer.

Concept is what makes actors raise their game.

Progressive improvement beats delayed perfection.

What you learn from others you can use to follow. What you learn for yourself you can use to lead.

At length the man perceives it die away, And fade into the light of common day.