Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day.

The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.

You look boldly ahead; isn't it only that you don't see or divine anything terrible in the future; because life is still hidden from your young eyes.

An actress without talent, forty years old, ate a partridge for dinner, and I felt sorry for the partridge, for it occurred to me that in its life it had been more talented, more sensible, and more honest than the actress.

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

Write only of what is important and eternal.

I think that it would be less difficult to live eternally than to be deprived of sleep throughout life.