An intense feeling carries with it its own universe, magnificent or wretched as the case may be.

There is always a certain hour of the day and of the night when a man’s courage is at its lowest ebb, and it was that hour only that he feared.

I sometimes need to write things which I cannot completely control but which therefore prove that what is in me is stronger than I am.

It is better for the intellectual not to talk all the time. To begin with, it would exhaust him, and, above all, it would keep him from thinking. He must create if he can, first and foremost, especially if his creation does not side-step the problems of his time.

Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic.

Stupidity has a knack of getting its way.

The first choice an artist makes is precisely to be an artist, and if he chooses to be an artist it is in consideration of what he is himself and because of a certain idea he has of art