All I maintain is that on this earth there are pestilences and there are victims, and it's up to us, so far as possible, not to join forces with the pestilences. That may sound simple to the point of childishness; I can't judge if it's simple, but I know it's true.

Working conditions for me have always been those of the monastic life: solitude and frugality. Except for frugality, they are contrary to my nature, so much so that work is a violence I do to myself.

To be born to create, to love, to win at games is to be born to live in time of peace. But war teaches us to lose everything and become what we were not. It all becomes a question of style.

stupidity has a knack of getting its way; as we should see if we were not always so much wrapped up in ourselves

Proof is never definitive, after all; one has to begin again with each new person.

The Four Conditions of Happiness: Life in the open air, Love for another being,Freedom from ambition,Creation

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as if there isn't and to die to find out that there is.