It only takes one match to ignite a haystack, or one remark to fire a mind.

Of women, the most we can say, not being Frenchmen, is that they are burrowing animals.

It's unthinkable not to love - you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Life is more complicated than we think, yet far simpler than anyone dares to imagine

For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential - the imagination.

Prohibitions create the desire they were intended to cure.

Does not everything depend on our interpretation of the silence around us?