The modern dance is no dance in the first place, and when you've finally learned it, it's not modern any more.
Repeat, over and over again, in case anyone forgets it or believes the contrary, that we do not live in the best of all possible worlds.
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.
Is it really so terrible being around us?" I blushed. "No," I said. "But. . . it's complicated. I've been taught certain things my entire life. Those are hard to shake. " "The greatest changes in history have come because people were able to shake off what others told them to do.
Thank God that sow's gone to the butcher.
In our hurried world too little value is attached to the part of the connoisseur and dilettante.
Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see where they are going to lead.