I see History as a relay race in which one of us, before dropping in his tracks, must carry one stage further the challenge of being a man.

Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.

When a war is won, it's the losers, not the winners, who are liberated.

The avantgarde are people who don't exactly know where they want to go, but are the first to get there.

They thought I suffered from lack of exterior, when I suffered from excess of interior

...the only way to prove you are normal is to smash someone's face in

I've had a lot of fun. Good-bye, and thank you.

Men sometimes die much earlier than they are burried.

A writer's subconscious is one of the filthiest places there are: as a matter of fact, you can find the whole world there.

As long as you live, you hope. You think that everything will just...get better.

Reality is not an inspiration for literature. At its best, literature is an inspiration for reality.

You’re going to let her wander into someone else’s arms? There’s another man who could protect her better than you? Well, if that’s true—

At Christmas, 'It's a Wonderful Life' makes me cry in exactly the same places every time, even though I know it's coming.

Great feelings take with them their own universe, splendid or abject. They light up with their passion an exclusive world in which they recognize their climate.

I feel that what mathematics needs least are pundits who issue prescriptions or guidelines for presumably less enlightened mortals.

I've been doin' drive-bys all of my life. Except the bullets are newspapers, the car is my bike.

The North Sea was supposed to run out in the 1980s. Then in the 1990s. And now production is still on-line.

Don't go to work to work, go to work to prosper.

My interest in fashion came from my interest in the body as a central cultural figure, not from admiring other designers - but of course I love Mason Martin Margiela, and I love Sybilla.

High Noon is a pretty corny movie.

There's no job too big to benefit from a small town person's perspective, I discovered, just as there's no town too small for thinking big.