Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone.

When people come to me saying they want to kill themselves, I tell them, "What’s your rush? You can kill yourself any time you like. So calm down. Suicide is a positive act." And they do calm down.

To venture upon an undertaking of any kind, even the most insignificant, is to sacrifice to envy.

To read is to let someone else work for you - the most delicate form of exploitation.

A civilization begins to decline the moment Life becomes its sole obsession.

Life without utopia is suffocating, for the multitude at least: threatened otherwise with petrifaction, the world must have a new madness.

Democracy: a festival of mediocrity.