The great courage is to stare as squarely at the light as at death.

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.

Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.

Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.

Believe me, religions are on the wrong track the moment they moralize and fulminate commandments. God is not needed to create guilt or to punish. Our fellow men suffice, aided by ourselves.

All I know of morality I learned from football

If it adapts itself to what the majority of our society wants, art will be a meaningless recreation.