It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting.

You must have a love, a great love, to ensure an alibi at unjustified despairs that conquer all of us

From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes.

In Oran, as elsewhere, for want of time and thought, people have to love one another without knowing it.

I have never been able to renounce the light, the pleasure of being, and the freedom in which I grew up.

What is a firm hand to me, of what use to me is this astonishing power if I cannot change the order of things, if I cannot make the sun set in the east, that suffering diminish and that beings no longer die?

Everyone would like to behave like a pagan, with everyone else behaving like a Christian.