I came into the world under the sign of Saturn -- the star of the slowest revolution, the planet of detours and delays.

The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.

The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses.

To a book collector, you see, the true freedom of all books is somewhere on his shelves.

Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.

The killing of a criminal can be moral-but never its legitimation.

The concept of progress must be grounded in the idea of catastrophe. That things are 'status quo' is the catastrophe