It's not a certain society that seems ridiculous to me, it's mankind.

Childhood is over the moment things are no longer astonishing.

It's only when I say that everything is incomprehensible that I come as close as possible to understanding the only thing it is given to us to understand.

Why do people always expect authors to answer questions? I am an author because I want to ask questions. If I had answers, I'd be a politician.

A civil servant doesn't make jokes.

People always try to find base motives behind every good action. We are afraid of pure goodness and of pure evil.

To me the world seems grotesque, absurd, ridiculous, painful.