Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

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

Any country where I am not bored is a country that teaches me nothing.

Our civilization survives in the complacency of cowardly or malignant minds -- a sacrifice to the vanity of aging adolescents

Crime too is a form of solitude, even if one thousand get together to commit it. And it is right for me to die alone, after having lived and killed alone.

I have never been able to renounce the light, the pleasure of being, and the freedom in which I grew up.

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.