There is nothing impossible in the existence of the supernatural: its existence seems to me decidedly probable.
Thank God, I am still an atheist.
You have to begin to lose your memory, if only in bits and pieces, to realize that memory is what makes our lives. Life without memory is no life at all. . . Our memory is our coherence, our reason, our feeling, even our action. Without it we are nothing.
The decline of the aperitif may well be one of the most depressing phenomena of our time.
The Cinema seems to have been invented to express the life of the subconscious, the roots of which penetrate poetry so deeply
If you were to ask me if I'd ever had the bad luck to miss my daily cocktail, I'd have to say that I doubt it; where certain things are concerned, I plan ahead.
Mystery is the essential element of every work of art.
I'm coming from a place where I have seen a different way to handle it, or a slightly different way to go through what is happening, that gives me some perspective. So I think it always helps. It always helps to have someone who has traveled the world or seen a different way to do something. That helps give you perspective.
You know you're ugly when you go to the proctologist and he sticks his finger in your mouth.
The only way for a reporter to look at a politician is down.
The need of an insecure psychiatrist to draw security from a virtuous adjustment to the conventionalities of his time and from a quest for approval from "the good and the great" may turn out to be another agent interfering with his ability to listen in a therapeutically valid fashion. This type of dependence gives rise to the danger that the psychiatrist may consider the changeable man-made standards of the society in which he lives to be eternal values to which he and his patients must conform.