In France, the press is different from the way the press is here.
Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison.
The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.
What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense.
The only joy in the world is to begin.
We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured.
It's like the riddle of the Sphinx why are there so many great unmarried women, and no great unmarried men.
I don't watch much TV or films, but I've watched Cameron Diaz.
I understand what it feels like not to like aspects of yourself. There have been times that I have felt really terrible about the way I look. I have the seed of that feeling.
That's what noir feels like to me. It feels like some kind of recurring dream, with very strong archetypes operating. You know, the guilty girl being pursued, falling, all kinds of stuff that we...
Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future one.