Freedom is not a reward or a decoration that is celebrated with champagne...Oh no! It's a...long distance race, quite solitary and very exhausting.

All men have a sweetness in their life. That is what helps them go on. It is towards that they turn when they feel too worn out.

Every artist preserves deep within him a single source from which, throughout his lifetime, he draws what he is, and what he says. When the source dries up, the work withers and crumbles.

Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.

Maman used to say that you can always find something to be happy about. In my prison, when the sky turned red and a new day slipped into my cell, I found out that she was right.

I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist.

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