But, you know, I feel more fellowship with the defeated than with saints. Heroism and sanctity don't really appeal to me, I imagine. What interests me is being a man.

If something is going to happen to me, I want to be there.

True artists scorn nothing.

A true masterpiece does not tell everything.

We have to live and let live in order to create what we are.

I felt the urge to reassure him that I was like everybody else, just like everybody else.

Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.