Aeneas carried his aged father on his back from the ruins of Troy and so do we all, whether we like it or not, perhaps even if we have never known them.

Cities have sexes: London is a man, Paris a woman, and New York a well-adjusted transsexual.

A book is simply the container of an idea-like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters.

Throwing open the door, she brings forth the veritable queen of all the souffles, that spreads its archangelic wings over the entire kitchen as it leaps upward…

It is not you talking, but innumerable ancestors talking with your mouth. It is not you who desire, but innumerable generations of descendants longing with you…

Your first duty, in completing your service to your race, is to feel within you all your ancestors. Your second duty is to throw light on their onrush and to c…

I will only make pictures that I won't be ashamed to have my children see.