And then came human beings; humans wanted to cling but there was nothing to cling to.

To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.

What made me run away was doubtless not so much the fear of settling down, but of settling down permanently in something ugly.

The day when I am no more than a writer I shall cease to be a writer.

Believe me, religions are on the wrong track the moment they moralize and fulminate commandments. God is not needed to create guilt or to punish. Our fellow men suffice, aided by ourselves.

I realized then that a man who had lived only one day could easily live for a hundred years in prison. He would have enough memories to keep him from being bored

I lived with the only continuity, day to day, of the me-me-me.