You know, the cynicism that is in the politics, it is not for my soul. It makes me - out of me, an extremely bitter, cynical person that I hate to see in the mirror, really.

If you know a little bit the psychology of human beings, you have to understand that if you say something you should not do, then everybody wants to do it.

It's cinematographic to smoke. Imagine Lauren Bacall without a cigarette.

A well-trained cat doesn't exist because a cat remains a cat.

Life is absolutely unbearable. And we're going to die.

You are putting yourself in serious danger...' I think that I preferred to put myself in serious danger rather than confront my shame. My shame at not having become someone, the shame of not having made my parents proud after all the sacrifices they had made for me. The shame of having become a mediocre nihilist.

Fear has always been the driving force behind all dictators' repression.