The problem is that censors create the concept of obscenity. By supposedly trying to protect us they form an absurd concept of what is obscene.

Only conformists are ever adored.

If you want to preserve your virginity, it's about not wanting to belong to the human species.

If I stop making films, I will die. I can tell myself that one day I will stop living. But I cannot bear the fact that the day will come when I will no longer be making films.

Be what we make, and not who we are.

You do not get to choose who you love.

I assure you that in all matters of discretion not involving food, we make etiquette tutors look like slobbering barbarians.

The path to tranquility gets through the storms!

Night does not show things, it suggests them. It disturbes and surprises us with its strangeness. It liberates forces within us which are dominated by our reason during the daytime.

Never stop paying attention to things. Never make your mind up finally. Do not hold beliefs.

Technology is always a two-edged sword. It will bring in many benefits, but also many disasters.

Judgments of adequacy involve social comparison processes

I have made my world and it is a much better world than I ever saw outside.

Do you ever read any of the books you burn?" He laughed. "That's against the law!" "Oh. Of course.

"Striking looking." That's a euphemism if I ever heard one.