I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn't.

There is no sun without shadow, and it is essential to know the night.

The role of the intellectual cannot be to excuse the violence of one side and condemn that of the other.

I like these people swarming on the sidewalks, wedged into a little space of houses and canals, hemmed in by fogs, cold lands, and the sea streaming like a wet wash. I like them, for they are double. They are here and elsewhere.

The harshest winter finds an invincible summer in us.

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

The more I accuse myself, the more right I have to judge you. Even better, I make you judge yourself, which comforts me the more.