When I write, I disturb. When I show a film, I disturb. When I exhibit my painting, I disturb, and I disturb if I don't. I have a knack for disturbing.

Living is a horizontal fall.

Without resistance you can do nothing

Alas! I do not believe that inspiration falls from heaven. think it rather the result of a profound indolence.

Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what's known as infinity.

Commissions suit me. They set limits. Jean Marais dared me to write play in which he would not speak in the first act, would weep for joy in the second and in the last would fall backward down a flight of stairs.

Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.