There are always reasons for murdering a man. But there is no justification for his existence.

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.

Where there is no hope, we must invent it.

In fact, other people create for lack of power. I, on the other hand, do not need a work: I live.

The French Revolution gave birth to no artists but only to a great journalist, Desmoulins, and to an under-the-counter writer, Sade. The only poet of the times was the guillotine.

In our well-policed society we recognize that an illness is serious from the fact that we don't dare speak of it directly.

Where there is no hope, it is incumbent on us to invent it.