Mystery is the basic element of all works of art.

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.

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

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.'

The best antidote I have found is to yearn for something. As long as you yearn you can't congeal: there is a forward motion to yearning.

In the name of the Fathers, and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost, here goes-I mean Amen.

I like the assumption that everyone is trying his best, and we should all just be kind to each other.

Have taken Trier with two divisions. What do you want me to do? Give it back?

The powers of a man's mind are directly proportional to the quantity of coffee he drank.

Iraq may not be the war on terror itself, but it is critical to the outcome of the war on terror, and therefore any advance in Iraq is an advance forward in that.

Everyone deserves a shot....and some deserve to be shot.

I hope you become comfortable with the use of logic without being deceived into concluding that logic will inevitably lead you to the correct conclusion.

Success requires both urgency and patience. Be urgent about making the effort, and patient about seeing the results.

I said it would be better if we weren’t friends, not that I didn’t want to be.