Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism -- victimless collecting, as it were... in a world that is well on its way to becoming one vast quarry, the collector becomes someone engaged in a pious work of salvage. The course of modern history having already sapped the traditions and shattered the living wholes in which precious objects once found their place, the collector may now in good conscience go about excavating the choicer, more emblematic fragments.

The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.

What makes me feel strong? Being in love and work. I must work.

Marriage is a sort of tacit hunting in couples. The world all in couples, each couple in its own little house, watching its own little interests and stewing in its own little privacy - it's the most repulsive thing in the world. One's got to get rid of the exclusiveness of married love.

Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once…and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.

The Western memory museum is now mostly a visual one.

Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.