I am now and have always been a stranger to the realm of practical matters.

The happy man only feels at ease because the unhappy bear their burden in silence. Without this silence, happiness would be impossible.

[Six principles that make for a good story:] 1. Absence of lengthy verbiage of a political-social-economic nature; 2. total objectivity; 3. truthful descriptions of persons and objects; 4. extreme brevity; 5. audacity and originality: flee the stereotype; 6. compassion.

Is it our job to judge? The gendarme, policemen and bureaucrats have been especially prepared by fate for that job. Our job is towrite, and only to write.

If in the first act you introduce a gun, by the third act you have to use it.

If you ever have need of my life, come and take it.

Perhaps man has a hundred senses, and when he dies the five senses that we know perish with him, and the other ninety-five remain alive... Everything that is unattainable for us now will one day be near and clear... But we must work.