Football is the last sacred ritual of our time.

I think to scandalize is a right, to be scandalized is a pleasure, and those who refuse to be scandalized are moralists.

When the soul hears no other calls than those of the sweet chaos of daily good and evil.

I am not interested in deconsecrating: this is a fashion I hate, it is petit-bourgeois. I want to reconsecrate things as much as possible, I want to re-mythicize them.

If you know that I am an unbeliever, then you know me better than I do myself. I may be an unbeliever, but I am an unbeliever who has a nostalgia for a belief.

The sexual freedom of today for most people is really only a convention, an obligation, a social duty, a social anxiety, a necessary feature of the consumer's way of life.

Nothing remains but to hope the end will come to extinguish the unrelenting pain of waiting for it.

Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams.

The cinema is an explosion of my love for reality.

The revolution is now just a sentiment.

Death does determine life.

We can follow a steady upward course in a world of change without fear, welcoming opportunities

It was a star, " Mrs. Whatsit said sadly. "A star giving up its life in battle with the Thing. It won, oh, yes, my children, it won. But it lost its life in the winning.

No man ever progressed to greatness and goodness but through great mistakes.

Don't be sucked in by the su-superior, don't swallow the culture bait, don't drink, don't drink and get beerier and beerier, do learn to discriminate.

If we have injured someone, giving him the opportunity to make a joke about us is often enough to provide him personal satisfaction, or even to win his good will.

Don't sing a song you can't carry off, like some 16-year-old kid singing 'My Way'. That song's not for you. You haven't lived that.

I like to live in the present. I struggle with that, though, because - even for all of this "letting your life flow" stuff - I also have anxieties.

There's no good idea that cannot be improved on.

I learned that healing and cure are active processes in which I myself needed to participate.

I learned that the richness of life is found in adventure. . . . It develops self-reliance and independence. Life then teems with excitement. There is stagnation only in security.