See the ridiculous in everything.
The stability and peace which seemed to be so firmly established by the brilliant monarchy of Francis I vanished with the terrible outbreak of the Wars of Religion.
If this is dying, I don't think much of it.
When the French nation gradually came into existence among the ruins of the Roman civilization in Gaul, a new language was at the same time slowly evolved.
With a very few exceptions, every word in the French vocabulary comes straight from the Latin.
Perhaps the best test of a man's intelligence is his capacity for making a summary.
Perhaps of all the creations of man language is the most astonishing.
In a sense, you're always mythologizing your life; it's always an effort to make yourself epic. At least in fiction you can lie and sort of justify your delusion about your "epicness. " But when you're writing a memoir, you're trying to make your life epic and it's not - nobody's life is.
They, students have a degree of freedom that nobody else has.
I feel like you don't have to go through jail, that's not part of bein' a man.
I worked with great, brilliant directors. I've been so lucky. It's terrible to compare anyone, because you can't. But I can just tell you that this experience was just a truly magnificent experience for everyone involved.