I don't want to name names, but the least I can say about rock and roll is that I'm suspicious.

I felt the need to tell stories to understand myself.

What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they?

My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor.

I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.

I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams.

I am only interested in bad taste if I can enjoy a gruesome tango or watch a movie that makes me cry.

If it's great stuff, the people who consume it are nourished. It's a positive force.

Your reality, isn’t restricted by this cell we live in. If you read something, if you study something, you transcend any cell you’re inside of

If the novelist shares his or her problems with the characters, he or she is able to study his personal unconscious.

Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.

I'm always adapting, I'm always learning, and I'm always changing.

To the haranguers of the populace among the ancients, succeed among the moderns your writers of political pamphlets and news-papers, and your coffee-house talkers.

France: As a professional journalist, I like the idea of a society where it is considered an acceptable occupation to basically sit around and drink.

If you are trying to aid people in the process of self-discovery, what you have to do is confound them with so many concepts that are contradictory, yet each make complete sense in its own right.

One who fears failure limits his activities. Failure is only the opportunity to more intelligently begin again.

My father was very outwardly religious.

We live so little time in this world that it is no matter how wretched and miserable we are, if it prepares us for heaven.

He who holds on to the Way seeks no excess. Since he lacks excess, he can grow old in no need to be renewed.

You can live a lifetime in two years.

The man who raises new issues has always been distasteful to politicians. He musses up what had been so tidily arranged.