Utopia is that which is in contradiction with reality.

Charm is a way of getting the answer 'Yes' without asking a clear question.

Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.

Thoughts of suicide have got me through many a bad night.

To feel absolutely right is the beginning of the end.

... here, where the gaze is stopped everywhere, the whole earth is designed so that the face turns upward and the gaze implores. Oh! I hate this world where we are reduced to God.

Turbulent childhood, adolescent daydreams in the drone of the bus's motor, mornings, unspoiled girls, beaches, young muscles always at the peak of their effort, evening's slight anxiety in a sixteen-year-old-heart, lust for life, fame, and ever the same sky through the years, unfailing in strength and light, itself insatiable, consuming one by one over a period of months the victims stretched out in the form of crosses on the beach at the deathlike hour of noon.