Young man, nature is not frightening, it's people who are frightening! You just need to get to know nature and it will become friendly. This creature known as man is of course highly intelligent, he's capable of manufacturing almost anything from rumours to test-tube babies and yet he destroys two to three species every day. This is the absurdity of man.

Only a lunatic would think that art is superior to nature.

It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.

Men always look differently at women, even if it's not your intention it is wrongly interpreted as such.

For me, writing [was] a question of survival...I could not trust anyone, even my family. The atmosphere was so poisoned. People even in your own family could turn you in.

With the beginning of life, comes the thirst for truth, whereas the ability to lie is gradually acquired in the process of trying to stay alive.

I believe in science but I also believe in fate.