Our memory is our coherence, our reason, our feeling, even our action. Without it, we are nothing.

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.'

I was drawn to his aloofness, the way cats gravitate toward people who’d rather avoid them.

It is... easy to be certain. One has only to be sufficiently vague.

Those who understand nature walk with God.

Mankind in the gross is a gaping monster, that loves to be deceived and has seldom been disappointed.

"You look how you look," "Be comfortable. What are you going to do? Be hungry every single day to make other people happy? That's just dumb."

These people [the Christians] watched the Flintstones as if it were a documentary.

As a kid, I used to be equal parts drawn to and horrified of the circus. They would have these beautiful canvas posters for Lobster Boy, bearded women, and this and that.

I once had a dream about getting a marriage, house in the country, and at the end of the day we'd retire, but I'm never going to retire.

It's a law of life: the tyranny of things.

It is the interplay between our experience and how we respond to it that makes karma devastating or helpfully invigorating.