Freedom is not constituted primarily of privileges but of responsibilities.

It's not the struggle that makes us artists, but Art that makes us struggle.

There is no shame in preferring happiness.

I understood, by dint of digging into my memories, that modesty helped me to shine, humility helped me to triumph and virtue to oppress.

In our wildest aberrations we dream of an equilibrium we have left behind and which we naively expect to find at the end of our errors. Childish presumption which justifies the fact that child-nations, inheriting our follies, are now directing our history.

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

Sometimes at night I would sleep open-eyed underneath a sky dripping with stars. I was alive then.