My holy of holies is the human body.

There is no national science, just as there is no national multiplication table; what is national is no longer science.

The stupider the peasant, the better the horse understands him.

There will come a time when everybody will know why, for what purpose, there is all this suffering, and there will be no more mysteries. But now we must live ... we must work, just work!

The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.

The sea has neither meaning nor pity.

The people I am afraid of are the ones who look for tendentiousness between the lines and are determined to see me as either liberal or conservative. I am neither liberal, nor conservative, nor gradualist, nor monk, nor indifferentist. I would like to be a free artist and nothing else, and I regret God has not given me the strength to be one.