Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous.

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.

Football is the last sacred ritual of our time.

The cinema is an explosion of my love for reality.

The revolution is now just a sentiment.

When they're talking about me they're letting someone else rest.

If you truly believe in the value of life, you care about all of the weakest and most vulnerable members of society.

As long as Christ sits on the throne, every day is a good day and all days are days of salvation.

Sign at a Tennessee highway: When this sign is under water, this road is impassable.

The magnitude of pleasure reaches its limit in the removal of all pain. When such pleasure is present, so long as it is uninterrupted, there is no pain either of body or of mind or of both together.

I think 'Y&R's future is contingent upon the ratings. Obviously, none of the soaps are kept alive for the sake of loyalty. It's all about ratings. It's show business. Period.

I can be a little bit stubborn.

Look, I think the notion that theres a dogma or doctrine of foreign policy that gives you a textbook recipe for how to react to all situations is really nonsense.

I'd make my whole collection with just one square of fabric. I wouldn't do anything else; everything had to be made from one square. This is just one example.

Nothing is as universal as some good scatalogical humor. Even if it means having to be a little silly or cheeky, I think it is worth it.