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

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.

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.'

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

A mystifying sensation of loneliness shook him. Arthur had been alone before, to be sure, but to be alone while surrounded by people, the one sane man in a mad place - that was loneliness.

You should always strive to make amazing things happen in your life

Normally, you go into the recording studio, make a record and then take it on the road and you think... wow... I could have done THIS to it, or something.

He dispensed starlight to casual moths.

Being seventy is not a sin. It's not a joy, either.

A world without a Sabbath would be like a man without a smile, like summer without flowers, and like a homestead without a garden. It is the most joyous day of the week.

The law is not abstract, impartially arbitrating between conflicting social classes; it is a tool in the hands of those who govern.

Rowing harder doesn't help if the boat is headed in the wrong direction.

9 to 5 made people aware of equal pay for equal work. It hasn't really happened, but it has come closer.

I'd like to thank God for making me an atheist.