Knowledge does not corrupt, unless it is arrogant; but then it is not true knowledge.

Whether every story that's there [in the Bible] is a historic truth ... Again, I'm not concerned.

Man walks the moon but his soul remains riveted to earth. Once upon a time it was the opposite.

Not to remember is not an option.

Drawn to childhood, the old man will seek it in a thousand different ways.

How can one explain the attraction terror holds for some minds — and why for intellectuals? . . .In a totalitarian and terrorist regime, man is no longer a unique being with infinite possibilities and limitless choices but a number, a puppet, with just this difference — numbers and puppets are not susceptible to fear.

The stars were only sparks of the fire which devoured us. Should that fire die out one day, there would be nothing left in the sky but dead stars, dead eyes.