I just love the ideal of the surreal quality of putting it on a shoe.
There are only two perfectly useless things in this world. One is an appendix and the other is Poincaré.
What can a mere French minister do when associated with Lloyd George, who thinks he is Napoleon, and Woodrow Wilson, who thinks he is Jesus Christ?
The Germans may take Paris, but that will not prevent me from going on with the war. We will fight on the Loire, we will fight on the Garronne, we will fight even in the Pyrenees. And if at last we are driven off the Pyrenees, we will continue the war at sea.
In order to act, you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.
If you don't vote SocialistCommunist before you are twenty, you have no heart - if you do vote SocialistCommunist after you are twenty, you have no head.
All that I know I learned after I was thirty.
For me, the most powerful way to write about something is through the absence of it. Rather than writing about what it was to become a new mother, I wrote, for example, a father facing death and addressing his estranged son about the regrets of his relationship.
I want to make a pop album - something more upbeat than my stuff was in the '90s.
One of the biggest contradictions in self-proclaimed open-mindedness is to say that we're all one but when a true bigot comes around tell him we're all different. It's usually the case that neither side is correct. One might have the right to do something, anything, but sure enough, that doesn't mean it's right and a benefit to other people.
He who integrates is lost.