If someone were to tell me I had twenty years left, and ask me how I'd like to spend them, I'd reply 'Give me two hours a day of activity, and I'll take the other twenty-two in dreams.'

Thank God I'm an atheist.

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!''

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

I would give my life for a man who is looking for the truth. But I would gladly kill a man who thinks that he has found the truth.

If we could only find the courage to leave our destiny to chance, to accept the fundamental mystery of our lives, then we might be closer to the sort of happiness that comes with innocence.