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.

There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison; there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation.

If one does not understand the usefulness of the useless and the uselessness of the useful, one cannot understand art.

It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.

No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.

A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.

The more I try to explain myself, the less I understand myself.