But do you know why we are always more just and generous toward the dead? The reason is simple. With them there is no obligation. They leave us free and we can take our time, fit the testimonial between a cocktail party and a nice little mistress, in our spare time, in short.

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.

He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.

The first choice an artist makes is precisely to be an artist, and if he chooses to be an artist it is in consideration of what he is himself and because of a certain idea he has of art

A lot of jobs don't allow you to be who you are. There is dignity in work only when it is work freely accepted.

Forever I shall be a stranger to myself. In psychology as in logic, there are truths but no truth.

Old women even forget how to love their sons. The heart gets worn out, Monsieur.