Ce que je sais de la morale, c'est au football que je le dois. (I know of morality, it is football that I owe.)

Love is the kind of illness that does not spare the intelligent or the dull.

But in order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common to us all. The seas, rains, necessity, desire, the struggle against death--these are things that unite us all. We resemble one another in what we see together, in what we suffer together. Dreams change from individual, but the reality of the world is common to us all. Striving towards realism is therefore legitimate, for it is basically related to the artistic adventure.

Integrity needs no rules.

We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.

In order to be created, a work of art must first make use of the dark forces of the soul

The evil that is in the world always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence, if they lack understanding.