Thinking of the future, establishing aims for oneself, having preferences-all this presupposes a belief in freedom, even if one occasionally ascertains that one doesn't feel it.

There may be responsible persons, but there are no guilty ones.

True artists scorn nothing.

Man cannot do without beauty, and this is what our era pretends to want to disregard.

Since we're all going to die, it's obvious that when and how don't matter.

To create today is to create dangerously. Any publication is an act, and that act exposes one to the passions of an age that forgives nothing.

I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist.