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

All that I know most surely about morality and obligations I owe to football.

... it is true that I do not respect [human life] more than I respect my own life. And if it is easy for me to kill, that is because it is difficult for me to die.

For rich people, the sky is just an extra, a gift of nature. The poor, on the other hand, can see it as it is, a gift of infinite grace.

A novel is never anything but a philosophy expressed in images. And in a good novel the philosophy has disappeared into the images.

They came to know the incorrigible sorrow of all prisoners and exiles, which is to live in company with a memory that serves no purpose.

he's incapable of suffering for a long time, or being happy for a long time. Which means that he's incapable of anything really worth while.