Every message of despair is the statement of a situation from which everybody must freely try to find a way out.

Boredom flourishes too, when you feel safe. It's a symptom of security.

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

Childhood is the world of miracle and wonder; as if creation rose, bathed in the light, out of the darkness, utterly new and fresh and astonishing. The end of childhood is when things cease to astonish us.

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

In the name of religion, one tortures, persecutes, builds pyres. In the guise of ideologies, one massacres, tortures and kills. In the name of justice one punishes...in the name of love of one's country or of one's race hates other countries, despises them, massacres them. In the name of equality and brotherhood there is suppression and torture. There is nothing in common between the means and the end, the means go far beyond the end...ideologies and religion... are the alibis of the means.

A writer never has a vacation. For a writer, life consists of either writing or thinking about writing.