Love, respect, and friendship do unite a people as well as a common hatred does.

Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given.

Then I feel so happy and at the same time so sad, it's unimaginable.

It is easier to ask of the poor than of the rich.

I promise to be a splendid husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, won't in my sky every day...

The time has come for writers, especially those who are artists, to admit that in this world one cannot make anything out, just as Socrates once admitted it, just as Voltaire admitted it.

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.