The most striking characters are sometimes the product of an infinity of little accidents.

My only regret is that I'm going before that rat, Robespierre! [to his executioner] Don't forget to show my head to the people; it's well worth seeing.

In order to conquer, what we need is to dare, still to dare, and always to dare.

One must never compromise with tyrants. One can only strike at kings through the head. Nothing can be expected from European kings except by force of arms. I vote for the death of the tyrant.

After bread, education is the first need of the people.

Let us be terrible in order to prevent the people from being terrible themselves!

I have left my balls to Robespierre and my legs to Couthon. That should help the Committee of Public Safety for a while.

Boldness, more boldness, and perpetual boldness!.

I had rather be guillotined than a guillotiner.

You [Robespierre] will follow us soon. Your house will be beaten down and salt sown in the place where it stood.

To conquer [our enemies] we must dare, and dare again, and dare for ever; and thus will France be saved

To see, to hear, means nothing. To recognize (or not to recognize) means everything.

Everything is for the eye these days - TV, Life, Look, the movies. Nothing is just for the mind. The next generation will have eyeballs as big as cantaloupes and no brain at all.

I'm not saying I'm the only Jewish person who cares about Palestinian people, but unfortunately, their voices are not necessarily heard as loudly as they should be.

If I have to give up good fashion for a relationship, I don't want a relationship.

Like love, grief fades in and out.

Nina Simone's music is incredibly honest. That's like saying, "Why does Jesus' word still stay around?" It's incredibly honest and it's good.

Illness reduces man to his basic state: a cloaca in which the chemical processes continue. The meaningless hegemony of the involuntary.

Our whole family thrives under pressure. It's like our family motto or something. Apart from my brother Peter, of course. He had a nervous break down. But the rest of us.

As far as I'm concerned, the coolest word in film is 'cult.'

Death is nothing to fear. It is only another dimension.