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.

It's easier to write about Socrates than about a young woman or a cook.

No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing.

Life is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty.

No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair, from year to year he lapses into an embittered state characterized by an extreme lack of faith.

When a person is born, he can embark on only one of three roads of life: if you go right, the wolves will eat you; if you go left, you’ll eat the wolves; if you go straight, you’ll eat yourself.

The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.