It was the greatest sensation of existence: not to trust but to know.

I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.

Only the man who extols the purity of love devoid of desire, is capable of the depravity of a desire devoid of love.

The plot of a movie is its motor. It is not an accident that people call pictures 'vehicles' for stars. A vehicle has to move. A plotless story is like an expensive car with a wonderful body design, luxurious seats, upholstery, headlights (production, direction, cast) - and no motor under its hood. That is why it gets nowhere.

That an error made on your own is safer than ten truths accepted on faith, because the first leaves you the means to correct it but the second destroys your capacity to distinguish truth from error.

The sky is like a black sieve pierced by silver drops that tremble, ready to burst through.

It is a matter of record that in the German Election of 1933, the Communist Party was ordered by its leaders to vote for the Nazis - with the explanation that they could later fight the Nazis for power, but first they had to help destroy their common enemy : capitalism and its parliamentary form of government.