Like the majority of deaf people, I don't like blind people much.

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

Repeat, over and over again, in case anyone forgets it or believes the contrary, that we do not live in the best of all possible worlds.

If the devil were to offer me a resurgence of what is commonly called virility, I'd decline. ''Just keep my liver and lungs in good working order,'' I'd reply, ''so I can go on drinking and smoking!''

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.

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

Refuse any image that could have a rational meaning or any memory or culture