Drama lies in extreme exaggeration of the feelings, an exaggeration that dislocates flat everyday reality.

People always try to find base motives behind every good action. We are afraid of pure goodness and of pure evil.

I have always considered imaginative truth to be more profound, more loaded with significance, than every day reality... Everything we dream about, and by that I mean everything we desire, is true (the myth of Icarus came before aviation, and if Ader or Bleriot started flying it is because all men have dreamed of flight). There is nothing truer than myth... Reality does not have to be: it is simply what is.

Only the ephemeral is of lasting value.

The end of childhood is when things cease to astonish us. When the world seems familiar, when one has got used to existence, one has become an adult.

It isn't what people think that is important, but the reason they think what they think.

It's not a certain society that seems ridiculous to me, it's mankind.