The Cinema seems to have been invented to express the life of the subconscious, the roots of which penetrate poetry so deeply

I can only wait for the final amnesia, the one that can erase an entire life.

A writer or painter cannot change the world. But they can keep an essential margin of nonconformity alive.

I'm still an atheist, thank God.

I find it [science] analytical, pretentious and superficial-largely because it does not address itself to dreams, chance, laughter, feelings, or paradox-in other words,-all the things I love the most.

Tobacco and alcohol, delicious fathers of abiding friendships and fertile reveries.

Mystery is the basic element of all works of art.