[Liberty] is a choreand a long-distance race, quite solitary, quite exhausting.

Yes, I'm happy, in human terms.

A person I knew used to divide human beings into three categories: those who prefer to have nothing to hide rather than being obliged to lie, those who prefer lying to having nothing to hide, and finally those who like both lying and the hidden.

My great idea is that we must forgive the Pope. First of all, he needs it more than anyone else. Besides, it is the only way of placing oneself above him.

You have to be very rich or very poor to live without a trade.

Every authentic work of art is a gift offered to the future.

In order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common to us all. The sea, rains, necessity, desire, the struggle against death... these are things that unite us all.