The important thing is that man is lost in time, in the moment that immediately precedes him - which only attests, by reflection, to the fact that he is lost in the moment that follows

Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.

The imaginary is what tends to become real.

My wish is that you may be loved to the point of madness.

What is admirable about the fantastic is that there is no longer anything fantastic: there is only the real.

I am the soul in limbo.

Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.

The mind, placed before any kind of difficulty, can find an ideal outlet in the absurd. Accommodation to the absurd readmits adults to the mysterious realm inhabited by children.

We all love conflagrations. When the sky changes color, it is a dead man's passing.

Humor (is) the process that allows one to brush reality aside when it gets too distressing.

It is more or less a given that nothing is less favorable to clairvoyance than the bright sun: physical light and mental light coexist on very poor terms.

Dance is the hidden language of the soul

Martin Luther King was not a Marxist or a communist, but his radical love leads him to put poor and working people at the center.

It was Jacques Chirac and Schroeder both, who pushed us into a conflict to remove Milosevic.

I wouldn't mind having another shot at doing comedy, but I'm not sure that's the way I'd want to go.

The mind is the atmosphere of the soul.

We should always remember that sensitiveness and emotion constitute the real content of a work of art

On a personal level, as a Christian, it will not be Barbra Streisand I'm standing in front of when I have to make an accounting of my life.

The one thing I think you must do is, as painful as it is as a parent, is listen.

The histories of mankind are histories only of the higher classes.

A related recurring theme is the exploration of how we take for granted the things in our immediate environment that are common and ordinary. Existential blindness, of sorts.