Only the ephemeral is of lasting value.
Drama lies in extreme exaggeration of the feelings, an exaggeration that dislocates flat everyday reality.
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.
It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.
We are all looking for something of extraordinary importance whose nature we have forgotten; I am writing the memoirs of a man who has lost his memory.