Life is a beautiful, magnificent thing, even to a jellyfish.

Have them all shot. I don't want any of my workers dissatisfied.

In the creation of comedy, it is paradoxical that tragedy stimulates the spirit of ridicule; because ridicule, I suppose is an attitude of defiance: we must laugh in the face of our helplessness against the forces of nature - or go insane

Life is laughter when seen in a long shot, but it is a tragedy when seen in a close-up.

The heart and the mind, what an enigma.

Where words leave off, gesture begins. Don't we speak of a person being speechless with rage, dancing with impatience, setting his teeth? The final motions of the soul are speechless, animal, grotesque, or of an incomparable beauty.

Soldiers, in the name of democracy, let us all unite!