Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone.
The only way of enduring one disaster after the next is to love the very idea of disaster: if we succeed, there are no further surprises, we are superior to whatever occurs, we are invincible victims.
Anyone who speaks in the name of others is always an impostor.
Tears do not burn except in solitude.
To hope is to contradict the future.
To have committed every crime but that of being a father.