The most important thing you do everyday you live is deciding not to kill yourself.
God is not necessary to create culpability, or to punish. Our fellow men are enough for that, helped by ourselves.
Maman used to say that you can always find something to be happy about.
Over there, in Europe, all was shame and anger. Here it was exile or solitude, among these languid and agitated madmen who danced in order to die.
History has shown that the less people read, the more books they buy.
No doubt our love was still there, but quite simply it was unusable, heavy to carry, inert inside of us, sterile as crime or condemnation. It was no longer anything except a patience with no future and a stubborn wait.